BANGALORE: Microsoft India announced that more than 80 percent of PCs in large enterprises in India have successfully moved away from Windows XP, thereby reducing the risk to their operations.

“We want every PC in India to move away from Windows XP before support ends on April 8, 2014. Our customers use Windows operating system to run critical processes which help them at work and in their lives. Therefore it is important that they use a version of Windows that gives them the best possible security and capability,” said Karan Bajwa, Managing Director, Microsoft Corporation India.

With 28 working days left for businesses in India to secure their IT environments and migrate from Windows XP to a higher version, Indian enterprises have shown significant momentum in adopting Windows 7/ Windows 8.  In the last eight months, there has been large scale migration from Windows XP to Windows 7/8. However, there are still about 16 percent of large enterprise computers that are active on Windows XP which pose a significant security risk to their organizations.

With end of support for its Windows XP solution kicking in on April 8, 2014, 12 years after it first launched, Windows XP computers will be a lot more vulnerable to security threats.

“This is a genuine threat to Indian businesses and it is worrying to see that many organizations in critical industries, for example banking, aren’t moving quickly enough,” added Mr. Bajwa.
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