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Over at MSFN Forums, user 'harkaz' has described a simple 3-step method of applying newer Microsoft updates to Windows XP operating systems.
He says: "The constraints are entirely artificial. Porting is easy as 1-2-3 ... So Windows XP can have semi-official support until 2019!"
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Sunday May 18 2014, @04:30AM
You addressed the enterprise market, but you could also throw in small business as the biggest one.
At the small scale (1-5 employees) could easily be $500-$750 a station if you are going on the lower power end of the market. Completely ignoring software requirements and vendor lock-in you need to hire IT if you want to upgrade old hardware. Most people don't have the skill sets to do what is required in business to not lose data, maintain uptime with no surprises, etc. Granted, there are some small businesses run by stupid people that will try, but those tend to not deliberate so much about budget and would have upgraded by now to Win7 anyways.
Past that when you get to between 10-50 it could represent too risky of an investment of capital, and most smart business owners would look at the interest rates for loans or what a place like Dell or CDW would charge per month on a dollar buy lease. Maybe getting all new hardware is just too difficult at the moment. Even with IT, or a competent CTO, they are going to say that it will cost a couple hundred a machine in the form of licensing and hours spent by staff performing upgrades.
Given the economy and what may be perceived as a helpless battle WRT to security, I don't know what Microsoft was thinking on this. They can't possibly believe that this is going to force anyone to stop using it, especially with the vendor lock-in and the software restricted crowd. My buddy has to use XP since he can't afford a multi-thousand dollar software upgrade for his CNC control software.
On the one hand it does increase the overall state of security since Win7 has to be better than XP in some regard. While on the other the only thing it saves them is the budget they spend supporting it while putting a lot of disadvantaged businesses at risk that all have sensitive business data. This does not create goodwill in their market.
Until the economy is better Microsoft should be supporting XP, or I don't know, maybe offer some sort of financing program and incentives to help do it. Sell some hardware packages and upgrade services. They need money to support divisions operating at a loss, and God knows Bing, IE, and Win8 aren't going to help them.
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