“Despite reaching its official end of life over a year ago, Microsoft’s Windows XP is still bringing the company some significant revenue — largely because Department of Defense and government customers can’t seem to get rid of it,” Sean Gallagher reports for Ars Technica. “And the Navy is one of Microsoft’s best custom-support customers.”
“The US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has closed a $9.1 million contract extension with Microsoft that the agency originally announced in April to further extend custom support for the venerable Windows XP operating system, as well as the Office 2003 suite and Exchange 2003 e-mail,” Gallagher reports. “The renewal, according to SPAWAR officials, will buy the Navy ‘time to migrate from its existing reliance on the expiring product versions to newer product versions approved for use in Ashore and Afloat networks, and will provide hotfixes to minimize risks while ensuring support and sustainability of deployed capabilities.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: In related news, the U.S. Navy’s nuclear sub screen door installation program is also proceeding swimmingly.
SEE ALSO:
South Korean Samsung said to be near deals to supply Android devices to U.S. FBI and U.S. Navy – July 18, 2013
French navy fighter planes grounded by Windows worm; Mac-based naval systems unaffected – February 25, 2009
PC virus attacks UK Royal Air Force and Royal Navy – January 19, 2009
Windows worm loose on International Space Station; Mac-using astronauts unaffected – August 27, 2008
UK Royal Navy will run nuclear bomb-carrying warships on Windows 2000 – September 07, 2004
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
