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Microsoft turns off Windows XP, UK government wants to keep it alive


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Microsoft turns off Windows XP, UK government wants to keep it alive

Microsoft's end-of-life support deadline for Windows XP has now passed and it appears to be causing a few people to board the train to panic station central.

In the UK, the recently-formed Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has paid Microsoft £5.5 million (around $9.1 million/AUS$9.8 million) to extend support for its geriatric operating system beyond the original April 8 deadline.

According to Dutch technology news website WebWereld, the Dutch government has followed suit by inking a "multi-million" Euro deal that will see up to 40,000 of public sector PCs upgraded by early 2015 at the latest.

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Whether you're working in the public sector or drawing cats on Paint in your spare time at home, failing to upgrade from XP is risky business as Microsoft will provide no further security or bug fixes for the 13-year-old operating system.

Despite this, Net Market Share estimates that XP is still running on over 27 per cent of computers worldwide. It was reported in January that thousands of UK public sector computers would still be running XP after support for the platform had lapsed.

But don't fear: whether you're at work, or working from home, there are options available to you. Linux is free and comes in a variety of different flavours and can run many of your existing apps.

Alternatively, click here to find out a whole heap of things you can do with your old Windows XP computer.

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That's true the Dutch government paid a substantial amount of money for the support for windows.

 

But they don't wanna announce the numbers involved with the deal yet.

 

In my opinion is this just a failure of the Dutch government. They started way too late with the replacement of windows XP and now its a hard pain in the ass. I don't know how much this crap will cost the Dutch government/my government each year and I'm afraid I don’t wanna know..

 

But I guess this is the problem for most of the countries around the world.

 

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