Nothing new really. The IRS and significant chunks of the UK government have the same basic deal to name but a few. Microsoft will charge them through the nose for the support and require that they show a plan to migrate off of XP onto some other supported OS in the next year. Plus people always forget about XP Embedded, which is still not EOL for about another year.
Still won't forget the time I was just walking past an ATM on my way somewhere else and saw a Windows desktop. Pretty much right in the middle of the desktop was a spreadsheet file. That spreadsheet file was a complete transaction log for that ATM. Not encrypted, not password protected in any way... If the banking software crashed and exposed the desktop, like in this case, anyone would have free and unrestricted access. Needless to say I never once considered ever using one of those ATM ever again. Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling about how good a job banks are doing protecting information that would be so valuable to crooks, doesn't it? They might spend thousands of dollars on the physical security, trying to keep people from getting at the cash reserves in the machine, but the sum total of the security on the software side is the overlay software they run.
Hmm, I wonder if Chinese language users of XP here will have access to those updates also? China is the country with the most pirated copies of XP. Seems they shouldn't come in for special treatment at all. Why can't they do like retired seniors on a tight budget are increasingly doing, and use a free operating system like Linux instead? Maybe there's something in the China national psyche about getting something that cost money for free, especially by means of theft, instead of just using something already free?
China to get XP updates for a longer time.
"For example, in 2009, approximately 80% of software sold in China was pirated.[2]
In 2007, the statistics from an automated push of an IE7 update onto
legal copies of Windows contrasted with observed web browser share,
leading one author[3] to estimate that 25-35% of all Windows XP installations are illegal."

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