Half of the venture PC running aged Windows XP operating system is yet depending on the rapidly to be leave Service Pack 2 (SP2), a investigator said.

According to safety risk and observance organization supplier Qualys, 50% of the some hundred thousand PCs it screens for its users are yet running Windows XP SP2.

"The usual thing for IT is not to manure about with incredible that works," said, chief technology bureaucrat for Qualys, as he tried to clarify why company have wedged with 2004's SP2 and not efficient to SP3, which debuted two years ago.

Microsoft will formally leave Windows XP SP2 on July 13. Following that date, even if it will persist to give safety upgrades for XP SP3, it will stop subject patch for the older SP2.

"I would wait for that come August, SP2 will be getting hard and harder to protect," said referring to be short of safety updates. "I wait for to see dependable exploits of unpatched vulnerabilities three or four months later."

Corparations have pace up their attempts to travel equipment to XP SP3 in the last 11 months rate of acceptance of the latest service set through that stage was approximately twice that of SP3's initial 14 months of accessibility but still now, just weeks prior to SP2 will slide off support, half of the Windows XP systems even run the older edition, according to Qualys.