Windows XP official support ended on 8 April 2014 for consumer users, but Redmond (Microsoft) has prepared specific plans to ensure the extension of the service to certain categories of users, like the many government agencies that continue to use the operating system of Redmond.
Among the names that stand out the figure of the United States Navy, which recently extended the contract under which Microsoft will continue to provide support for Windows XP, Office 2003 and Exchange 2003 for the modest sum of 9.1 million dollars.
And I would say fortunately they do it, given that about 100,000 workstations of the US Navy are also used by SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command), space research center of the US Navy (I should not add much about the sensitivity of the activities of which is concerned).
The extension of the agreement with Redmond, which represents a great deal for Microsoft, give the US Navy the necessary time to continue modernize the infrastructure. They have already started doing it with special directives, like the one of the Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, CNO (Chief Naval Officer), called 'Windows XP Eradication Efforts'.
The Navy is not the only US Administration to have chosen to continue to take advantage of support offered by Microsoft. Last April the US Army did the same agreement extended to over 8000 devices. Therefore, to close with a joke, it seems that Redmond historical operating system is an 'enemy' that, more than a year after his formal departure, nor the Navy neither the Army can defeat.
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