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London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000

Posted by Soulskill on from the year-of-something-on-the-somethingtop dept.

girlmad writes: "Google has scored a major win on the back of Microsoft's Windows XP support cut-off. The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has begun moving all its employees over to Samsung Chromebooks and Chromeboxes ahead of the 8 April deadline. The council was previously running 3,500 Windows XP desktops and 800 XP laptops, and is currently in the process of retiring these in favour of around 2,000 Chromebooks and 300 Chromeboxes. It estimates the savings at around £400,000 compared to upgrading to newer Windows machines — no small change."

3 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. Mad by bugs2squash · · Score: 1, Funny

    They must be barking...

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  2. The really amazing thing... by JustNiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    The really amazing thing is that one small Borough of London apparently employs over 2300 admin workers.
    No wonder our taxes are so high.

  3. Re:Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Makes sense. Chromebooks can be okay on the hardware, but I can't see them as very useful especially for real work.

    It's Council... who said anything about doing any work.