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posted by janrinok on Friday November 11 2016, @12:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the payware-treadmill dept.

IT Wire reports

In a notice that has been described as unconscionable, Australian accounting software provider MYOB has sent out a notice to its users, asking them to upgrade their Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems and SQL Server database software before the end of the year. The company provides tax, accounting, and other services to small and medium-sized businesses.

Windows 7 has extended support [1] from Microsoft until 14 January 2020.

In a notice sent to users, which is also on its website[2], MYOB said:

Microsoft is making changes to the technologies that are covered under mainstream support. This will impact our ability to provide support if you are using MYOB software on those technologies. We encourage you to upgrade before 31 December 2016 to ensure we can still support you.

If your practice is running any of the following, it's time to update:

  • Windows 7 (all versions);
  • "Microsoft Office 2010 (all versions);
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (all versions), including SBS 2011 (which is built on Server 2008 R2);
  • "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, excluding MYOB AO clients with SQL 2008 R2 Express;

Not only will your MYOB software run faster and be more stable, you'll get the peace of mind that comes from knowing that if anything goes wrong, we've got your back.

[1] Content is behind scripts.
[2] Submitter had problems viewing page when using his blocking software, I had no problems even with NoScript activated.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @12:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @12:53AM (#425489)

    Company wants to cut its test cost back. Interesting. How terrible of them.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:23AM (#425504)

    Let me actually bring you back to the real world and show you what this is really about:
    "Company wants to cut its test cost back and expects YOU to spend money to allow them to do that"
    Yes, that is terrible of them. It's cheap, it's easy, it's sleazy.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday November 11 2016, @02:27AM

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday November 11 2016, @02:27AM (#425533)

      Company wants to address its customers' problems without its prime supplier dragging its feet because said customers use old software.
      Just because it's "supported" doesn't mean that answers come at constant speed when you report a bug.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @06:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @06:16AM (#425586)

      I do not disagree. Both your point and mine are valid. Judging from another comment here it looks like they shit the bed and got lazy. Now they have to cut costs to make it work. One way is to push costs onto your customers.

      Any company that sells software on windows should be seriously concerned about its future. The only ones that will probably survive will be large package suites (aka photoshop, office), games, things that must be secure, or interact with a particular bit of hardware. Anything else is basically forms and data. Those should be moving towards a web sort of eco system if you want to survive. This comes from a hard core 'you will never take my windows computer' guy. Windows is on its way out. Cheap and low cost will be the future. Windows does not have much roll in that. One of the ways companies are going to trim costs is to kill the SKU madness that MS created. Cutting off support for 8+ year old software is not unreasonable from their POV. If you want to use their software you will need to upgrade. That is the nature of that market. Yes it sucks and your vendor cheeped out on you. That is the nature of using closed source software.

      Now as a old windows guy I would be hard pressed to figure out what the F they are doing that they can not support win7 and up. It *has* to be testing combos. Windows is actually pretty damn hard to break if you do it correctly. If you took all sorts of shortcuts and ignored the docs then you deserve the shit storm you built.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday November 11 2016, @05:12PM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday November 11 2016, @05:12PM (#425730)

      It is terrible and sleazy. But it's up to their customers to vote with their feet, or else the customers deserve this treatment.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @08:37PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @08:37PM (#425816)

        Lemme know how practical that is. Or to look at this same type of problem from a different perspective: if you've got 1 ISP in your area and you don't like them, lemme know how well it works out for you to 'vote with your wallet'.
        That's a nice illusion you got there, son.

  • (Score: 5, Touché) by TheGratefulNet on Friday November 11 2016, @02:18AM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Friday November 11 2016, @02:18AM (#425530)

    they just want to, uhm, 'make windows great again'.

    (sorry)

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    "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by sjames on Friday November 11 2016, @05:13AM

    by sjames (2882) on Friday November 11 2016, @05:13AM (#425573) Journal

    They want small to medium businesses to do the "upgrade" in the middle of the silly season.

    Meanwhile, the software is WEB BASED.