Looks like a good business move but will these customers respect respect the time line and move to new version particularly, when they have sat on their ass for 10+ years?
According to the article:-
"We've made custom support more affordable so large enterprise organizations could have temporary support in place while they migrate to a more modern and secure operating system," a Microsoft statement admits
But my sources tell me that the deals enterprises are getting on custom XP support are far better than seems possible. In fact, many companies are seeing a savings of over ten times. In one dramatic example, a large bank was able to haggle an $85 million annual contract for XP support down to just $3 million.
Microsoft COO Kevin Turner returned from a series of customer meetings in early April and alerted the Windows team that far too many of these customers were affected by XP's support expiration and that the firm would need to "effectively give away custom support" to accommodate a lengthier transition to more modern Windows versions. This decision was literally made in the final week leading up to the April 8, 2014 "XPocalypse."
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