The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8

It's the disconnect rule: any article which requires disabling ghostery/disconnect to read or which have 10 or more trackers merit flagging. If the content is good, there is most likely a better home with fewer trackers / ads (which is not to say that I'm against ads entirely, but there is a limit)

I'm using NoScript and there is no problem reading the article.

I don't think it's likely that a huge corporation whose entire IT infrastructure was built around Windows and Microsoft software would migrate to Linux. It would be a big technical and political risk for the executives: if something went wrong, the company would be seriously hurt and they'd be fired. Upgrading to a newer version of Windows would be technically easier and politically much, much safer.

Ok so let’s say a big company/government agency decides to migrate off of Windows, and onto Linux. This much has happened before.

Why then, would this organisation that obviously has some kind of IT staff who have some kind of training and experience, pick Ubuntu?

It’s like saying “I want Linux, but with all the shitty bits of Windows added in by default for me”.

Assuming a Linux migration was on the cards, how would you go about supporting office excel spreadsheets with VBA code, VB6 Winform apps and intranet sites optimised for IE6?