Microsoft Vietnam will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system for Vietnamese corporate and individual users from Tuesday, putting around 5.5 million computers at risk of virus attacks and data losses.
Microsoft Vietnam will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system for Vietnamese corporate and individual users from Tuesday, putting around 5.5 million computers at risk of virus attacks and data losses.
Vu Minh Tri, general director of Microsoft Vietnam, told the Daily that the corporation will not provide security updates, error repair versions, technical support and online technical content updates. Therefore, users can no longer receive firewall protection or anti-spy software updates.
“We have recommended and given support to Vietnamese enterprises and individual users to upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows 8. However, the upgrade process has taken place slowly,” Tri said.
There are more than 5.5 million computers in Vietnam running on Windows XP, an 11-year-old operating system, and a majority of them belong to corporate users.
Tri said that enterprises would certainly suffer damages if their computers were attacked by viruses and data thefts.
Before stopping support for Windows XP, Microsoft Vietnam has informed enterprises. However, most of them have done nothing due to poor awareness over possible threats, Tri noted.
According to the global network security report SIRv15 recently conducted by Microsoft, Windows XP is vulnerable to many viruses and malicious codes such as Sality, Ramnit and Vobfus that may trigger personal data losses and virus attacks.
Vietnam is running the risk as around 45.8% of computers in Vietnam are using Windows XP, Microsoft said.
(Source:SGT)
