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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. Re:Maybe they will move to court instead? by Xest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Probably more worrying is the fact that much of our military are still using IE6.