14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will be discontinued on April 8, 2014, and even though lots of users, businesses, and authorities are struggling to move to a newer platform as soon as possible, some will fail to do this before retirement date.
The Japanese government, for example, will keep Windows XP running on 266,231 personal computers at local and prefectural governments, according to a report by The Japan Times and citing the internal affairs ministry.
It turns out that the authorities do not have enough time to complete the transition, so as a result, these computers will continue to be powered by Windows XP next year.
A temporary solution has already been found, according to the same source, as the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has asked those still running Windows XP on government computers to avoid using the PCs until a newer platform is deployed.