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• Gmail will push users further away for XP and Vista

  Google quietly announced Tuesday that Gmail will stop supporting older versions of its Chrome browser, in a move that will put another nail in the coffins of Windows XP and Windows Vista.

• ​Microsoft comes alive in enterprise as Windows 10 rollouts become fastest yet

  Half of enterprises will have started Windows 10 deployments by January 2017.

• Grace under pressure

  When the Ministry of Education moved ‘the heart of the organisation’ – its datacentre - to the cloud, the ICT team prepared for every possible scenario.
  
  

• Labour demands answers from Internal Affairs on XP migration

  Labour has complained to the Ombudsman following what they claim to be a refusal by Internal Affairs minister Peter Dunne to respond to Official Information Act requests on the number of government agencies continuing to run computers on the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.

• Ministry for Primary Industries challenges status quo, moves to Windows 8.1

  We delayed the rollout to ensure we’d roll out the latest version, and reduce the risk of running multiple upgrades, says Tracy Voice, acting deputy director general, corporate services.
  

• In Pictures: 9 reasons users won’t ditch Windows XP

  Microsoft stopped support for Windows XP on April 8: Meaning, no more software or security updates for the nearly 13-year-old OS, despite it still holding onto just under 30% of the desktop OS market (according to NetMarketShare). Microsoft wants XP users to upgrade to a newer Windows OS, preferably Windows 8.1. Yet many people are determined to hold on - you’ll have to pry Windows XP from their PC’s cold, dead hard drive. Here are nine reasons why.

• Windows XP officially no longer supported

  Upgrade now to avoid increased exposure to cyber-attacks, says Frazer Scott, Microsoft New Zealand.
  

• More than a quarter of a million New Zealand computers still on XP: Microsoft

  Experts weigh options for enterprises as support for 12-year-old operating system ends midnight tomorrow.

• Moving off XP is the responsibility of individual government agencies: DIA

  The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) expects that most government agencies will have moved off Microsoft XP by April 8 and says that of those which haven’t, most should have moved within three months.
  

• Windows XP, Office 2003 deadline looms

  Microsoft has issued a reminder that security patches, software updates and technical support for Windows XP and Office 2003 ends next week on 8 April.

• Nearly 7% of ANZ PCs face XP-related security exposure: Trend Micro

  Companies in Australia and New Zealand are well ahead of world pace in moving away from Windows XP – which is widely expected to become a security nightmare once Microsoft discontinues updates for the platform next Monday – but hundreds of thousands of regional PCs are still running the operating system, according to new statistics from Trend Micro.

• Nearly 400,000 PCs in NZ running XP vulnerable to attack

  Support for XP ends in less than a year – and upgrades to Windows 7 or 8 will take time, says Microsoft.

• Windows XP to Windows 8: Don't go there

  A majority of enterprises have migrated to Windows 7 or are planning to do so. But for Windows XP holdouts ready to side-step Windows 7 for the upcoming Windows 8 OS, you are risking a gap in support, stresses research firm Gartner in a new "first take" analysis of Windows 8 migration in the enterprise.

• Death of Windows XP SP2 support a security risk

  If your business is still running Service Pack 2 of Windows XP, security problems are lurking around the corner, according to new research from IT services vendor Softchoice stating that almost 80 percent of organizations surveyed risk a security breach if the do not upgrade to SP3.
  Why should SP2 users fear the reaper? Because Microsoft is ending support for SP2 on July 13, a date that was established when Windows XP SP3 was released on April 21, 2008. Paid support and security updates for SP2 will no longer be available, although Microsoft has stated that Windows XP SP2 users will still be allowed to access Microsoft online Knowledge Base articles, FAQs and troubleshooting tools.