Microsoft under pressure from the corporate and the ordinary home user is forced to go on an unprecedented step — the resumption of support for legacy software.
We are talking about the operating system Windows XP. This platform, we recall, was released fifteen years ago — October 25, 2001. Immediately after the release of the operating system began to gain popularity. According to Net Applications, Windows XP was the most popular operating system on computers with Internet access until August 2012.
Mainstream support for Windows XP was a story back in April 2009. After another five years — in April 2014 it stopped Russian support for the OS. Since then, users not only Polly security.
But Windows XP is not going to go on. According to the statistics already mentioned the company net applications, in February 2017, this system Nicholas surgery in third place in popularity in the world with a share of 8.45 %, second only to Windows 7 (is 48.41 %) and Windows 10 (of 25.19 %).
With Windows XP continue to work both home users and corporations. So, this OS is used on many of today's ATMs. Therefore, the lack of fresh patches for vulnerabilities in Windows XP jeopardizes important elements of IT infrastructure.
In this situation, Microsoft had to make an exception to its own rules and to resume the production of updates for legacy OS. It is reported that the second phase extended support will continue until April 2022. Thus, users will receive updates for another five years.
