Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Whatever IT challenges you face in 2025, will you meet them with anger, fear, and indifference – or will you go forward with interest, curiosity, and humility?

Ken Hess

A new year always brings the hope of new possibilities, new technologies, and new challenges. I’m not sure that new challenges are what system administrators want to look forward to, but you know they’re there and they’re coming whether you like it or not. Challenges, in one way or another, are what you do. You face challenges and you resolve them. I remember quite well when Windows XP (XP) hit my clients’ desktops and I was thinking, “Well, I guess I can get out of the computer business because XP won’t have all the issues of its predecessors.” It seemed like the perfect operating system – the best since OS/2. I was wrong, of course, because I wasn’t a regular user. Regular users work with many different applications and with…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, January/February 2025

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