A larger number of organizations are still running workstations with Windows XP SP2, which saw its last Patch Tuesday last week. So says Fiberlink Communications, who surveyed 500,000 computers and found 17 percent of them still running on XP SP2. Fiberlink thinks that this could have been due to the fact that XP SP3, which was released in May 2008, could have proven to be a tricky update to install for some organizations.

The fact that Fiberlink's survey pool seems to contain an unusually large number of older computers--over 81.57 percent are running XP and only 0.33 percent on Windows 7--does not detract from the fact that it is unwise to continue using a version of Windows that is no longer supported with security updates by Microsoft. As it is, users still on XP SP2 should either upgrade to SP3 for free, or Windows 7.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Computerworld 

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