XP deadline will spend the remaining year Win8 limited time offer to business users

Beijing time on April 9, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft will limit SMEs provide 15% discount Price buy Windows 8 and Office 2013, to attract them to give up the Windows XP. After a whole year, Microsoft will abandon Windows XP support, including paid and free.

Many companies are still using the operating system Windows XP this has been around for 12 years. The latest data released by market research firm Net Applications, Windows 7 occupies 44.7% market share of the desktop operating system, Windows XP market share of 38.7%, Windows Vista market share of 5%, only 3.2% of the Windows market share.

Microsoft's current promotional activities for small and medium-sized enterprises are still using Windows XP, and want to make them to be upgraded before the formal end of Windows XP support in April 8, 2014. April 8 to June 30, according to Microsoft's promotional activities, small and medium-sized business users of Windows XP Professional Edition, upgrade to Windows 8 Professional Edition and Office 2013 Standard Edition price 15% discount.

Upgrade the user can be ordered through the Microsoft Open License. Open License website, Microsoft Windows 8 Professional Edition pricing is $ 188, Office 2013 Standard Edition is priced at $ 373, and a total price of $ 561. In accordance with the 15% discount calculation, the price is $ 477, saving $ 84.

Microsoft is also called for in the blog are still using Windows XP users concerned about the safety and function. Irving Wiesel (Erwin Visser), senior director of Microsoft's Windows division, said in a blog: "Despite the termination of the Windows XP support as well as a year, but the upgrade will take some time, may exceed the time of Windows XP support, thereby your business at risk. rapidly changing field of security, new threats emerge every day, enterprises should deploy next-generation Windows platform, the protection of data and intellectual property, and respond to security threats. "

Enterprises except after April 8, 2014, Microsoft will no longer provide Windows XP security patches, but to buy a custom support plan. But Microsoft has increased dramatically the price of these plans, the companies said retired Windows XP, 5000 sets of Windows XP systems support fees for the first year up to $ 1 million, the second annual support fee of two million U.S. dollars, the third year of support costs 5,000,000 dollars.
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