Windows XP Still Used By UK NHS With Extended Support: What Can You Do With Your Old XP?

Windows XP has been an invaluable tool for many organizations. Even after Microsoft ended support for the OS, organizations around the world continue to use it. One such organization is the National Health System in Britain. There are 35 NHS trusts in Britain and they are all sing Windows XP. Just 14% of them are utilizing desktop virtualization to manage Windows XP migration, according to Citrix.

However, the government bought extended Windows XP support from Microsoft until an April 8th 2015 deadline. The price tag for the extension was an incredulous £5.5 million. And about 75% of the NHS trusts were preparing to migrate their last XP device in March 25, one in seven trusts were ignorant of such as transition taking place on their last computers.

Microsoft's Windows XP is a major OS in its ensemble of operating systems, despite its existence for more than a decade. The Windows XP still accounts to 25% of all OS on the planet; it is also Microsoft's most popular OS after Windows 7.
Citrix UK country manager Jason Tooley, said in a techradar.com report, "Like the rest of the public sector, the NHS is under tremendous pressure to do more with less. The IT department is no exception."

Windows XP is also used in corporate surroundings (banks, POS, public sector) or on household PCs that are consdierably old.

For personal users who discontinued use of the XP, the operating system came to a halt after the end-of-life, pulling support for the XP in April 2014. These are a few things you can do with your personal PC if it is just laying around:

Upgrade it to Windows 7 or 8
. Replace it
Switch to Linux
Your personal cloud
Build a media server
Convert it into a home security hub
Install a cloud-based OS
Host websites yourself
Gaming server