US Navy pays millions to cling to Windows XP

This is not good.

US Navy pays millions to cling to Windows XP

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IT World reports that the Navy earlier this month signed a $9.1 million (£5.8 million) contract that could extend into 2017 and hence climb up to $30.8 million (£19.6 million), all to keep 100,000 computers afloat as the Navy continues to move legacy systems off of Windows XP.

The contract gives the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command - the command responsible for running communications and information networks - continued access to security patches not only for Windows XP, but also to Office 2003, Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003.

The first three of those were end-of-life'd already, and doomsday is coming soon for Windows Server 2003, whose end of life date is a few weeks away on 14 July.

Which part of it is not good?

_Howard wrote:

Which part of it is not good?

I can answer from my viewpoint.
1.  Microsoft gets a $10 million reward for sunsetting a program
2.  The Navy is using an insecure OS
3.  Millions upon millions of industrial customers, for whom XP was the last stable Microsoft offering, are now going to wonder if they've been played for schmucks by Microsoft

Actually, it's $30.8 million over three years.

ALL operating systems are insecure if not properly safeguarded.

Microsoft users are accustomed to being screwed by that miserable company.