Forums: Discussions for entrepreneurs and small business.

I work for an advertising and market research company and we are a small business that has been around for over 50 years.  We are, however, very outdated.  We are running an operating system from 2002, and programs have not been updated in a while.  We aren't extremely knowledgeable on the more advanced topics with computers, but have enough to keep the business going.  We are looking into making a few changes to bring us more up to date.  We were considering switching from Windows XP to Windows 7.  Has anyone done this switch/does anyone strongly recommend using Windows 7 for out business.

Also, we have just been doing external hard drive backups, but feel like it would be easier/more beneficial to start using online cloud backup as our backup solution.  Does anyone know of any relatively cheap companies that could be used/ would anyone suggest not using online backup for the company?

Lastly, we re running on a peer-to-peer network at the moment, with around 15 employees working on their own station.  The idea of aquiring a server came up, but we are not very knowledgeable on how that would affect our company.  Does anyone else run their business with a server/what would it do for my company/do you recommed doing it?

If anyone could give their input on any of the above topics I would really appreciate it!

Thank you very much!