14 DAY TRIAL // Poundland, a British firm that sell all of its products for £1, has decided to move all its workstations from Windows XP to Windows 7, as Microsoft is ending support for the 12-year-old platform on April 8, 2014.
Unsurprisingly, the firm has picked Windows 7 as the next destination, explaining that while it also considered Windows 8 as a potential choice, it decided to go for the operating system that doesn’t require additional investments in hardware.
“We have a lot of investment in Microsoft, so with this we can bring all the tool sets together under one umbrella. It offers us a single point of control for all our stores from Orkney to Penzance. That was really compelling to us,” Matthew Sparks, IT services manager at Poundland, told V3.
This is clearly good news for Microsoft, as Redmond hopes to see more users giving up on the old Windows XP and pick a newer platform. Of course, Microsoft would clearly prefer consumers to embrace Windows 8, which it says is the most secure and fastest Windows version to date.