Business Still Stuck On XP Even Now

It's been a year since support for XP was dropped. I know my wife's workplace moved up to W7, but seems many business is still using XP a year later. Are they waiting for Windows 10 release?


Perhaps the most interesting detail that emerged from Intel's
lackluster first quarter financial results the other day had nothing to
do with mobile, the company's white whale. Instead, it concerned
something so old that it almost seems laughable in the same week that
the very 21st-century Apple Watch dominated headlines. Per ZDNet's own Larry Dignan:

In a statement,
Intel said it cut its first quarter outlook because of "weaker than
expected demand for business desktop PCs and lower than expected
inventory levels across the PC supply chain." One
reason the chip giant cited for that weaker demand: a slowdown in
companies upgrading from Windows XP systems. What's particularly
interesting about this is that the move away from the ancient OS helped
drive some of Intel's better results in 2014.



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What that suggests is a potentially
intractable problem for both Intel and Microsoft: businesses that still
manage to operate fine, thank you very much, with an operating system
that's nearly 15 years old.....(more in article)

I just realized the joke picture of the inept IT guy, is a younger picture of the article author.