Rampant piracy in China has meant that while younger versions of Windows have complex anti-piracy safeguards (and complex ways of getting around them) Windows XP is the OS of choice when it comes to cheaply outfitting your 100-day business. The poor uptake of patching the operating system, however, has led to China becoming a world leader in malware attacks. With the upcoming deadline, the security issues, for Chinese users and organisations at least, could get much worse.
It's not going to be an easy upgrade for the PRC. Latest figures suggesting that nearly 3 out of four computers (just over 72%) are chugging along with XP, and according to NetworkWorld, eight months isn't enough for China to upgrade in time for the last security patch. Microsoft aren't interested in backing out of stopping support for system, even though it continued to offer Microsoft Messenger for Chinese users when everyone else was forced to upgrade to Skype.
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