Almost all municipalities will end this year on a newer version of Windows than XP. Microsoft stops support of XP in a little over a month, after which the operating system an easier prey for attackers.
Although now more than a third of the municipalities of pcs running Windows XP, plan many municipalities, a rapid transition to a newer version of Windows. That report Nu.nl on the basis of a survey among more than half of the municipalities. Many municipalities have the questions not answered.
About 96 percent of the municipalities plant of Windows XP to abandon for the end of the year. Of the remaining municipalities, Amsterdam is the largest; who thinks in 2015 of the no longer supported operating system. The Frisian municipality of Smallingerland, which Drachten falls, think only in 2016 Windows XP to phase out.
Of all Dutch people has 10 percent of Windows XP to run; that number has been on the decline. If the support stops, vulnerabilities in the operating system remain open; Microsoft no longer works on patches. That happens from april.
