Aging PCs Running Out-of-Date Software Bring Security Worries

Age is an issue with application languages and frameworks, too.

More than half of the software running on PCs around the world is outdated, with millions of users still logging into computers running Windows Vista and XP. Thats just some of the information to come from a new report on PC software and the risks posed to security.
The Avast 2019 PC Trends Report is based on anonymized data from 163 million computers running Avast and AVG security software. It presents information on both the hardware and software running the worlds business and personal applications — and the picture it paints is of an infrastructure growing older with each passing year.
In fact, the average age of a desktop PC is 6 years old, up from 5.5 years old in 2017. Thats compared with less than a three-year average
life span for a smartphone
. Age continues to be an issue with application languages and frameworks, too. According to the reports authors, Our report shows that the number of installed tools and frameworks is higher than real apps, such as Office or Skype. In some cases, these arent being kept up-to-date by the user or the vendor.
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