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

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 2, 2014 @10:10AM 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."

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Re:Translation by gbjbaanb · 2014-04-02 21:20 · Score: 5, Informative

actually no. RTFM: London council dumping their old remote terminal and web browsing desktop machines with shiny new remote terminal and web browsing machines. Shiny new machines that are significantly cheaper.
They are also buying new Windows 7 PCs for specialist apps that don't run over RDP.
One thing to note: Windows 8 was not even considered (Mac and Linux considered but not chosen, due to the particular use-case they needed)