14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will go dark in less than five months, but many users are yet to start the transition to a newer operating system.
Small businesses are among those to be affected the most by the end of support, Cristie Street, co-founder and managing partner of Nextrio, a Tucson-based IT firm that offers XP migration assistance.
Street explained that 90 percent of the computers in Tucson and still running Windows XP belong to small businesses, which means that beyond this date, many of their systems would be exposed to attacks.
“In Tucson, we have a lot of small businesses — in fact we are about 90 percent small businesses — and Microsoft knows that of that 30 percent of desktops in the world, the largest concentration is (among) small businesses,” Street said according to Arizona Daily Star.
“So because we have a huge number of small businesses in Tucson, it’s very likely that this impacts us on a large scale.”
Windows XP is at this point the number 2 OS in the world, as it’s powering more than 30 percent of the desktop computers connected to the Internet.