Windows XP dropped to 3. Microsoft invested millions of dollars in Windows XP, and all these efforts paid off for the company with millions of systems still running it. Microsoft pulled support for Windows XP in April , and the operating system no longer receives cumulative updates and security patches, but the people are still using it for some unknown reasons.
Redmond-based software giant invested millions of dollars in marketing as Windows XP was one of the critical updates for the product, and its interface is still used in Windows The latest desktop OS Windows 10 is available since , and it powers more than million devices.
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If you don't believe in the undead, think again: Windows XP may be just over a month from its much-publicised demise but is now Microsoft's fastest-growing operating system in terms of market share. For that zombie-like assertion we can thank Netmarketshare's new data about operating system market share. As we reported in February , the outfit found that in January XP claimed Proof of that assertion comes from Vulture South's Tablo-matic , which we've fed a few months of Netmarketshare data.
After adding market share of 0. There are all sorts of reasons Netmarketshare's data could be erroneous, but even if XP's market share isn't growing it is still extraordinary that it it remains installed on almost one in three PCs. Anecdotally, a great many XP machines reside in developing nations: your correspondent certainly saw a fair bit of XP in places like Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam last year. Even that scenario leaves millions of PCs in more developed nations running XP. It's conceivable many will get an upgrade, or be replaced, during March.
It's also clear that come April 9th, those with new ways to attack XP will have plenty of targets. Google is splashing the cash in the UK with a billion-dollar purchase of a London property as the ad biz looks to the office as "a place for in-person collaboration and connection. It is planning to expand its capacity for 10, staffers. The commitment to getting people back into offices stands a little in contrast to other employers, and the frequent surveys showing that many workers are quite happy working remotely.
For Google, the keyword is flexibility. Contractors employed via umbrella company Parasol Group are increasingly nervous about a multi-day outage of some IT systems used to process payroll, with several suspecting a security attack as the root cause. Greet Borsens, the chief sales officer at Parasol Group, itself part of Optionis Group, wrote to its contractor customers on 12 January confirming "a systems outage in parts of our group" affecting the MyParasol portal. We are still able to provide telephone support and LiveChat to our contractors for any queries they may have and to manage questions in this regard," the message read.
A "massive" cyber attack on Ukraine caught the world's eye this morning as the country's foreign ministry said its website, among others, had been taken down by unidentified hackers.
The attack, which took place overnight, saw websites for the foreign ministry, ministerial cabinet, security and defence council, treasury and more being defaced with messages telling Ukrainians that personal data had been stolen and that they should "be afraid and expect the worst.
Immediately the whole world thought of Russia; Vladimir Putin's armed forces invaded and occupied Crimea in and according to some is now eyeing up the remaining portion of the ex-Soviet nation.
Until recent unrest in Kazakhstan a very large Russian military presence had been noted in eastern Ukraine, seemingly poised to continue the invasion. HPE has convinced a Japanese telecoms provider to operate its 5G stack as a testbed for private networks the carrier intends to offer to business customers. The move could represent a new opportunity for HPE, which saw revenues grow at 2. The UK government's ePassport airport gate upgrade programme has no system integrator, a hardware supplier has said, while the Home Office and two of its IT units seem confused about who should be fulfilling the critical role.
Worrying changes are afoot for e-comics vendor ComiXology as Amazon finally gets round to asserting copy control — meaning no more downloads of unprotected comics, even if you've paid for them. It looks as if Amazon subsidiary Iconology Inc — which trades as ComiXology — is finally being subsumed, eight years after Bezos' behemoth bought the business.
Back in , The Reg expressed concern that ComiXology's own dedicated comic-reading app might be replaced with the Kindle app, and that seems to be finally happening, at some as-yet unspecified time soon. Comixology's latest blog post says that changes are coming in "early Indian IT services giant HCL Technologies has quietly removed some of the controversial clauses from its HR policy revealed by The Reg last week, which required resigning employees to pay back bonuses.
According to the policy, employees who resign are responsible for paying back all the bonus they've received from their last appraisal cycle until their last working day LWD. A company email detailed that the LWD would be taken as 31 March , so if a staff member leaves on 3rd March , the amount paid from 1st April through to 28th February would be recovered. Microsoft's board of directors has hired a law firm to review its sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and practices following a shareholder proposal.
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