According to the IRS, it has approximately 110,000 Windows-powered desktops and notebooks. Of those, 52,000, or about 47%, have been upgraded to Windows 7. The remainder continue to run the aged, now retired, XP.
via Update: IRS misses XP deadline, will spend $30M to upgrade remaining PCs – Computerworld.
Most very large businesses are in the same boat. The only difference is that they are not playing with your money. Its hard to swallow the magnitude of how many devices are still on XP; not only with the IRS but world wide.
The only winner in any of these situations is Microsoft. They make on average an additional $200 a year, per PC, just to provide security updates and patches to vulnerabilities that may be found in THEIR product after the superficial April 8th deadline.
Although Microsoft did give a warning nearly 6 years ago regarding the deadline to get rid of XP machines. The problem with this is most programs designed and in use were designed for XP architecture. And if you have any programming background you know it is not easy, nor cheap, for those businesses to “redesign” their product for a new OS while maintaining one for another.
Is the business or corporation you are currently at in a similar boat? Would like to hear about it, please comment below.