14 DAY TRIAL // The Glasgow City Council has joined forces with Serco Group, a government services company, to found Access LLP, a spin-off supposed to take care of a migration project that would move computers used by local staff from Windows XP and Office 2003 to Windows 7 and Office 2010.
Access will also be in charge of testing applications used by the city council for potential compatibility issues with Windows 7, which according to a press release, need to be treated as high priority.
“Analysing usage and taking this data to each council department has enabled us to cut the Windows XP app packaging requirement to just fewer than 1,000. The usage information has been vital and has saved us an enormous amount of time, getting us to a point we would never have got to without the tool,” said Faye Shaw, commercial director at Access.
Microsoft will officially retire Windows XP on April 8, 2014, but the operating system is still powering more than 30 percent of the computers worldwide.