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Government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support

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Government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support

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pcernie

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Government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... lic-sector

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Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:04 pm

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Re: Government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support

If that's all public sector PC's then that's not too bad.

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Re: Government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support

I think I've mentioned this before but most NHS computers still run XP and IE6. I raised an issue about support issues a year ago and got no response.

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Re: Government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support

Many core central government systems won't run on anything more modern than IE6. :shock:

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Re: Government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support

It isn't like they haven't had a decade to sort out the IE6 nonsense.

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