XP stops service UK pays 5.5 million pounds to Microsoft to extend XP support

[Abstract] The term is one year. I don't know how much the Dutch paid for it. XP stops service UK to Microsoft to pay 5.5 million pounds to extend XP support Tencent technology Snow April 8 so far, more than 25% of the world's personal computers are still using Windows XP operating system. Still, Microsoft has decided to stop providing support for this outdated operating system this week. Microsoft has been trying to push users who are still using Windows XP to upgrade, and even offer users a 100-dollar discount that they want to upgrade to the Windows 8.1 system. For some users who prefer Windows XP, Microsoft's decision to stop providing support for the system means a "catastrophe" is coming. But users in some countries will receive special treatment because their governments are willing to spend millions of of billions of dollars to keep Microsoft in support of the system. Before that, the British Government had decided to pay Microsoft for a year of extra support for the Windows XP system, and the Dutch government had reached a similar agreement with Microsoft today. The Dutch news website, Webwerald, said it would continue to provide support to Dutch Windows XP users by April 2015, according to the agreement between the Dutch government and Microsoft. The report did not disclose the amount of the transaction, but it is understood that the agreement will be 34,000 to 40,000 Windows XP system based PCs receive one year of additional support. In a previous deal with the British government, the latter paid 5.5 million pounds (about 9.1 million dollars) to the software giant. While Microsoft has eased its rules slightly, it requires all government departments to upgrade their PCs to Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating systems after the extended service support contract expires next year. In other words, the British and Dutch governments are basically just getting a year's extra time to prepare for a system upgrade. "These agreements do not mean that Windows XP systems need to be discarded as quickly as possible," Microsoft said. ”