14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP no longer receives updates since April 8, 2014, but approximately 17 percent of the world's desktop computers are still running it, so Microsoft is now joining forces with partners to kill the operating system and convince users to upgrade.
Dell has announced that more than 330 million of its customers are using a device which is at least four years old, so the company is working on a program that would encourage them to switch to a newer OS version such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.
“We can allocate more time to talking with customers, partners and creating products. We are showing customers what they could do if they refreshed to the latest devices,” Kirk Schell, VP of the commercial PC group at Dell, was quoted as saying by IT Pro.
While such a campaign clearly comes in handy since many users are still on Windows XP, despite the increasing security risks of staying on an unsupported platform, it's still a bit surprising that this alliance is formed only a few months before the release of Windows 10.
As a result, it remains to be seen how many users would actually agree to upgrade from Windows XP to a newer operating system, such as Windows 7 or Windows 8, since Windows 10 is only a few months away, and waiting a little bit longer would guarantee a one-time investment that could bring them straight to the latest OS version released by Microsoft.