Will WannaCry malware finally get everyone to leave Windows XP?

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Hopefully there are going to be plenty of lessons learned from the WannaCry fracas, and with any luck, it will see folks finally abandoning Windows XP for good – and that’s certainly something that needs to happen as XP is still the third most-used desktop operating system in the world.

That’s despite the fact that it hasn’t received security patches from Microsoft for over three years now, meaning it has more holes than a leaky bucket – including vulnerabilities that can be easily exploited, as what happened with the WannaCry ransomware which hit the NHS so badly.

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