THE UK GOVERNMENT has confirmed that it will not extend its Windows XP support agreement with Microsoft for a second year.
Windows XP reached end-of-life status in April 2014, but the government made a payment of £5.5m to Microsoft to provide bespoke support for the large number of government systems and machines that had not been updated in time.
It had been widely expected that a second, much larger, payment would become due this year after it transpired that many departments had done little or nothing to migrate away from the unsupported operating system.
