Over the years the UK government consistently chose to continue to stay on Windows XP in an effort to save money._ In fact a study done late last year showed the country’s National Health Service still had 85% of their computer running Windows XP._ Microsoft has been very open about their lifecycle plan to end support for Windows XP and this was announced over six years ago._ In fact Microsoft extended support for Win XP an additional three years to give enterprises and governments the time to make the transition. life for Windows XP only 4 days away, a deal has been struck with Microsoft._ The government has signed a deal with Microsoft to provide Windows XP support and security updates across the whole UK public sector for 12 months after regular support for the operating system ends on 8 April._ The agreement is worth £5.548m (over $7.6 million), and covers critical and important security updates for Windows XP, Office 2003 and Exchange 2003, all of which have reached end...

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