14 DAY TRIAL // Lotus F1 is one of the businesses that will continue using Windows XP after April 8, 2014, the date when Microsoft will officially stop providing support for the 11-year-old operating system.
The reason is pretty simple: most Lotus F1’s apps are running flawlessly on Windows XP, so the team has decided to delay the upgrade to a newer operating system.
Instead, it’ll continue running XP, but only in offline mode, just to make sure that hackers won’t attempt to break into their computers.
"We will still be running XP beyond the end-of-life date mostly in labs and we've narrowed the purpose of that machine down to, 'It runs a jig' or 'It runs one thing,'" Lotus F1 CIO Graeme Hackland was quoted as saying by ZDNet.
Microsoft recommends users still running Windows XP to install a newer operating system as soon as possible, explaining that an unpatched computer is mostly an open door for hackers.