Why Update Now With Windows 10 on the Horizon

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I have to ask this question because it is to obvious to me, yet I see no discussion of the topic. I understand that "every day that we run XP we are exposing ourselves to...", yet there is on MS approved vendor that is already offering

three (3) months of free support for XP while the decision process is reviewed.

 

While I leave most of the software issues at my main office pretty much up to the IT service that we employ for that purpose. Yes, I understand that there are many things that I can do myself so why pay others, as well as missing

out on the learning curve? It is so simple that I will try to just answer it without much explanation. #1. They are under contract, which includes these things, so why should I chance making a mistake, and possibly causing the system to crash, or other disaster

if I make a mistake, along the learning curve. All of the Partners, in our firm have agreed that at the principle office none of us is nearly as smart (about computer hardware, & software) as the firm we have retained to do the job, if we were we would (probably

almost) never expend money on something that we could do ourselves; #2. We are each well-experienced in our fields, and as partners we support each other when their clients have a question the answer wo which resides within our minds, and not their mind or

skillset. We each have an established billing rater per hour, and a case load that already has our individual assistants operating at 99.999% so there is no room for an additional workload (we are all scouring our alma mater to find "assistants to our assistants"

or floaters, but as full-time employees as we create appropriate positions as "Associates" as a career path. That all sounds irrelevant until we look at the simple answer to Question #2, everyone here already is fully employed in their jobs, we each earn far

more money at our professions, than leaving our desks, and our clients "hanging" while we work on something that know little about, losing a billable hour for every 60 minutes we spend in work outside our field, and only accomplishing only the equivalent of

20 minutes of actual work, so IT IS MORE EFFICIENT FOR PARTNERS TO WORK IN OUR FIELD AND LET IT TECH's WORK IN THEIRS' #3. This is the biggest question we have, Why are so many people, and firms so interested in upgrading to either Win8 (this makes absolutely

no sense to me) or to Win8.1, when it appears that it is now