Windows XP continues to lose market share and now it is the London police who will stop using it on their computers

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Although it&39;s been almost four years since Microsoft ended support for Windows XP, there are still a large number of companies and individuals that continue to use it An example is the banks (it is very expensive to update the use licenses to the versions of Windows Embedded), whose ATMs in the vast majority continue to have Windows XP as a base. In this case and given its special nature, Microsoft extended the life cycle of the special version of Windows XP that usually takes (Embedded) until 2019 to give time to finish migrating."

But the banking sector is not the only one that continued to use Windows XP at this point, despite the fact that a good part of the computers have Windows 7 as a base. Leaving private users aside, there are still many companies and official institutions that continue to use an operating system that, although very stable, is out of date. And it's hard for them to change and not tell the City of London Police who are now about to stop using Windows XP permanently on their devices.

In a body that handles data as sensitive as the police, in this case from the city of London, it is surprising how they used an outdated operating systemdespite not receiving (with some exceptions) security updates, something that clearly jeopardized the security of the information they processed and stored.

Little by little systems are migrating to other, more modern versions of Windows in a process that, however, is proving too slow

To do so, they started a process almost three years ago that they want to finish throughout this year 2018 and that will entail ending the use of Windows XP on their devicesNot surprisingly, the number of devices that used Windows XP inside the body in mid-2017 was around 18,000 devices.

Some devices that, in addition to moving to a more current version of Windows, will see an update arrive in the form of new _hardware_ that allows them to work with newer versions of Windows. Thus they will begin to renew laptops and tablets that can benefit from functions such as cloud storage among other aspects, thanks to the agreement they have reached with Box.

It is expected that throughout the months of April and May the process will be completed and that computers with Windows XP will no longer be used to start working under Windows 10.

Windows XP is gradually disappearing and seeing its presence in the market reduced At this point and almost four years after the cessation of support, Windows XP is still executed by 5.18% of the computers that have Windows as the operating system. A significant share for an operating system that was released in 2001 and that almost equals that offered by Windows 8.1, which stands at 5.71%.

Source | Softpedia In Xataka | It's 2017 and I still have to work on Windows XP