Using Legacy Software Safely

Rich-M said:
I would not react so quickly to that Brian
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I would and I did, but @Digerati gave a level of detail that covers my concerns, which I did not.

There is absolutely no way I would consider severing the tie between a computer and cyberspace in a normal business (or home) setting in this day and age. It makes life hellishly more difficult for the vast majority of activities that virtually anyone does.

But, if you're the outlier where it works for you, go for it! Presuming it could or should be a useful default for the majority, well, no.
 
It appears my set up is being misinterpreted. The firm (in this case a non- profit trade association) has multiple computers on-line. Just the one keeps the GL and aforementioned programs. In this case, CYMA Software.
 
Still not sure how CYMA software would work on an isolated, stand-alone system that has no Internet or on-line connection. Even if the company works solely via an Intranet, totally isolated from the Internet, it seems to me there would be a need for networked communications so the employees could enter their hours, check their PTO balance, etc. But for sure, I could be totally missing something.

Also for sure, my business has really wound down in recent years as I have basically retired and just holding on a few of my long time SOHO clients who have become more like friends. So I am not totally in the loop when it comes to business/payroll software. Not to mention, being an electronics technician, my focus has always been primarily on hardware.

Still, with only a couple having small offices NOT in the home, all of my clients with home offices absolutely rely on the Internet. Especially those who still (or again!) have students living at home.
 
Digerati said:
Still not sure how CYMA software would work on an isolated, stand-alone system that has no Internet or on-line connection. Even if the company works solely via an Intranet, totally isolated from the Internet, it seems to me there would be a need for networked communications so the employees could enter their hours, check their PTO balance, etc. But for sure, I could be totally missing something.


Still, with only a couple having small offices NOT in the home, all of my clients with home offices absolutely rely on the Internet. Especially those who still (or again!) have students living at home.
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All employees are salaried.
 
Tekno Venus said:
I've split this discussion off from the original thread ([SOLVED] - MS Office 2007) as the original thread had been solved - the OP switched to SoftMaker Free Office.
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But the title has nothing to do with what's being discussed. It's not, in reality, about disabling updates in any meaningful way.

Also, I don't see much point in a split when the OP's question has already been answered. The topic had not, in any meaningful sense, been hijacked, but is having a natural extension - topic drift. Now this branch is divorced from the original context, and requires looking at both topics.
 
I'm happy to use a different title if one is suggested, it's easy to change it.

The original thread had run its course - the OP had received a solution for Office 2007 and was happy with the alternative. As far as I am concerned, the original question and topic had been solved.
 
Never said the original topic hadn't been solved. That is, in my opinion, irrelevant..

Thread drift is a natural thing, has been going on for years, and is accepted. This was an offshoot of the original that flowed very naturally from its context, and divorcing it from that context serves no purpose.

Regardless of what you'd call this split topic, it is now divorced unnecessarily from the context from which it sprung, which is really not helpful.

Splitting should be limited to when a completely unrelated or new issue gets inserted in to an ongoing topic before the original has even been addressed, not for a natural post-solution flow.

There is no good way to title this topic as standalone because where it is split has introduced a completely unnatural environment. It floats out in space without the required referents for easy understanding. But correcting the spelling on "Disabling" would be a start. And if you're going to retitle, then something like, "Isolating a Machine from Cyberspace to Run Older Applications" makes a lot more sense.
 

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