These are all soft costs that he missed or ignored. Maybe he was thinking that the new HDD would miraculously set itself up and drivers would automatically install and users would instinctively know what to do without any training or instructions. Sure, we could adopt one members suggestion and add an extra HDD and dual boot for $40 but that's not real cost effective either. And then when there was the Win8 debacle, we knew it was going to go downhill from there and, fortunately in our case, we were able to transition to a blend of open source programs to supplement/maintain our Win7 base.
We were leery of Win 7 when it came out to replace XP but a lot of us adapted, even though our mainstay programs were 32 bit. Yeah, it's cute and all that but not real practical in business applications.
Just because a new version of windows comes out doesn't mean it's better for mainstream businesses. I know this is an old thread but I love it when those who don't know try to tell those who do know what to do. When those in charge of designing for the future know so little about the real small business world, it's no wonder we are given stuff like touchy-feelie screens straight out of "Idiocracy" with no trace of irony. This, dear naive young techie hipsters, is the scam perpetrated on thousands of small businesses. And no, printing 10,000 pages of info is not a viable option we are left with trying to keep old software alive, like Lazarus, and only Virtual Machines running XP will provide a tenuous lifeline. Then, lo and behold, after closing, we still must somehow maintain these for seven years in case the IRS comes calling commonly, either a) the software company is also closed, or b) we might keep spending thousands, just for this contingency, for a business we can no longer even take deductions for. Obviously two camps here - those who play with computers, and those who ran real businesses that demanded pricey, proprietary software tied to MS OS, along with expensive annual support, often in the thousands, for glitchy upgrades that gave nothing, until we just stopped paying.
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