Windows XP support will be available after April 8 - just not for you

As Microsoft stops providing technical support for XP from tomorrow, April 8, regular users are advised to switch to newer versions of Windows. However, several governments have chosen to pay Microsoft for longer support of XP for their government computers. Microsoft has been warning about the demise of Windows XP support since September, 2007, and Custom Support will extract a heavy toll from businesses that were too slow to act: up to $5 million per year (according to a report from Gartner), negotiated on a custom, per-company basis. Last year, Gartner issued a report claiming that the prices could go as high as $200 per PC, per year. The Dutch government has signed a multi-million euro deal with the company for continued support for the departing Windows XP OS, according to Dutch website Webwereld. Last week, the UK government also signed a $5.48m deal with Microsoft to provide extended Windows XP support until April 2015.

"While many customers have already completed their migrations to a modern OS, some large customers with complex Windows XP deployments may not have their migrations complete by April 8," a Microsoft spokeswoman said in a statement. "To help those customers, we offer Custom Support for Windows XP as a temporary, last resort to help bridge the gap during a migration process to a modern OS, as the newest technologies provide the optimal chance to be and stay secure. We are sure that our customers are taking the necessary steps to protect their customers."

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