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    UK Government Pays For Extended XP Support


    Posted: 07 Apr 2014
    Windows XP is supposed to be dead next week. But the Dutch and British governments have both inked deals with Microsoft to continue to keep it on life support, at least for them—under Microsoft’s Custom Support program.
    Not dead yet: Dutch, British governments pay to keep Windows XP alive | Ars Technica
    Nigsy's Avatar Posted By: Nigsy
    07 Apr 2014



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    I think quite a few banks paid up a few weeks back as well, this it turning into a nice little money spinner for MSFT.
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    I knew XP wasn't going away just yet :) . I wonder just how many other places are gonna pay for extended XP support.
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    user31 said:
    I knew XP wasn't going away just yet :) . I wonder just how many other places are gonna pay for extended XP support.

    If you think about it most Big Legitimate companies will spring for this simply because replacing the whole infrastructure will cost more period and doing all that and paying the people to do so can sore into the High Millions
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    Solarstarshines said:
    user31 said:
    I knew XP wasn't going away just yet :) . I wonder just how many other places are gonna pay for extended XP support.

    If you think about it most Big Legitimate companies will spring for this simply because replacing the whole infrastructure will cost more period and doing all that and paying the people to do so can sore into the High Millions
    Oh, definitely, I agree with that. It will save more money to keep what they already have than to push a new product.
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    Yea and Microsoft will have a reason to keep it updated they make a handsome cut off a 10+ year OS

    talk about getting your moneys worth
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    Solarstarshines said:
    Yea and Microsoft will have a reason to keep it updated they make a handsome cut off a 10+ year OS

    talk about getting your moneys worth
    And who said that MS was stupid?
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    Frank1 said:
    Solarstarshines said:
    Yea and Microsoft will have a reason to keep it updated they make a handsome cut off a 10+ year OS

    talk about getting your moneys worth
    And who said that MS was stupid?

    It was that other guy
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    so they pay to keep an outdated OS instead of paying for a new OS? Talk about government waste...

    and they only had 6 years or so to switch... allegedly not enough time. the fact they buy that XP support now right 5-to-12 shows they have a lack of planning. they probably wanted to be on new OS by now, but didn't get it done.

    I also would be concerned with employee retention and hiring... I assume they also have old PCs. Who would want to work on a single 17"screen with 1 GB RAM and single core CPU?
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