14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will be officially retired on April 8, but plenty of users worldwide will continue to run it on their computers, which will basically increase the risks of getting hacked due to unpatched vulnerabilities.
That’s why Chinese IT companies decided to keep providing technical support to users running Windows XP after April, with Tencent, Kingsoft, Sogou, and other firms already expressing their intentions to offer assistance, according to Xinhua news agency.
As per the same report, the involved companies will start offering Windows XP support before the shutdown and will continue working with users running this particular platform for two or three more years until the transition to another operating system is completed.
Windows XP is currently installed on 29 percent of computers worldwide, but Microsoft expects the market share to drop to 13 percent by April.