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Yesterday Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. While many users and even businesses continue to cling to the venerable OS there will be no further security updates and even with active anti-virus and malware protection, many users will be left unsecure reports the LA Times and various other news outlets.
There are some exceptions for the right customers.
The UK and Dutch governments have paid Microsoft multiple millions to extend support for Windows XP past the 8 April cutoff date.
The UK extension cost £5.5m but is only valid for a year, after which public-sector users will have to be moved to newer software.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Wednesday April 09 2014, @03:39PM
I have no love for MS, and will jump on any legitimate reason to criticize them, but here all the blame has to be laid firmly at the feet of the incompetent civil servants.
Exactly. I really despise MS, but even here I have to cheer them on and only criticize them for not charging even more. These governments are utterly idiotic not only for being so entangled with XP, but not finding a better solution years ago, and I have zero sympathy for them now.
And WTF is all this crap about "training" anyway? I've never received any training at all for using Windows or Office at any job, either when starting the job or when the company moved to a new software version. Everyone is just assumed to know how to use it, or to figure it out on their own.