The Windows XP changeover should be done for users, businesses and authorities as soon as possible. As an alternative, Microsoft is also able to provide a technical support service that will be paid on the 8th of April. The federal state of Lower Saxony, or the IT-Lower Saxony Department (ITN) – has confirmed to cooperate with Microsoft for a year.
The soon to be signed contract for a "Custom Support Agreement" includes the supply of 7,000 office computers with security updates, plus 1,000 to 2,000 more in the country. The letter will soon be signed. In this way, the state of Lower Saxony is spending more time switching from Windows XP to Windows 8.1, and the migration to the current successor to the operating system is to be completed by 2017.
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Details on the costs were not mentioned. After the contract is signed, information and figures are to be announced, said the Ministry of the Interior opposite heise.de. Originally it was planned that the company T-Systems - the large part of Deutsche Telekom - would take over the conversion. In June 2013, however, the country separated from the company before the computer could be converted.
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The task was subsequently handed over to the "Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen" ("Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen") (LSKN). Subsequently, negotiations began directly with Microsoft. At the beginning of 2017, the LSKN was divided into the Landesamt für Statistik and the IT-Niedersachsen responsible for the XP conversion. The money for the deferred Windows XP conversion comes from tax money. We will keep you posted as soon as information about the cost is known.
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