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Windows XP Support Deal Not Renewed By UK Government, Leaves PCs Open To Attack

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-for-all dept.

girlmad writes: The government's one-year £5.5m Windows XP support deal with Microsoft has not been extended, sources have told V3, despite thousands of computers across Whitehall still running the ancient software, leaving them wide open to cyber attacks. It's still unclear when all government machines will be migrated to a newer OS.

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  1. Not true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's well understood that Windows is so flaky it needs constant patching and the minute you stop paying, it explodes into a fireball. The only thing keeping that POS software from chomping on your important data is a constant fee paid to Microsoft to tame it.

    What you need is to cloudify the lot, you don't see clouds explode into fireballs do ya! That's the power of the cloud, I learned that at MBA school.

  2. In other news... by RDW · · Score: 5, Funny

    Support for the current Government reaches EOL next week and currently seems unlikely to be renewed. However, it looks like an upgrade supported by multiple vendors for five years may be in place shortly after:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

  3. risk is low by SkunkPussy · · Score: 1, Funny

    If these computers are within a secured network and particularly if they don't have access to the internet, then there isn't any great risk in continuing to use these XP machines.

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    SURELY NOT!!!!!