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Met Police Still Running Windows XP on 27K PCs, Planning Upgrade to… Windows 8.1
Windows XP no longer receives updates and security fixes since April 8, 2014, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone dumped it and moved to a newer o…
But what’s worse is that even authorities around the world keep using Windows XP, and the most recent example comes from London, where the Met police is still running this 15-year-old operating system on approximately 27,000 PCs.
The Inquirer reports that the Metropolitan Police has an on-going contract with Microsoft to receive custom patches for these PCs, even though more than 2 years have passed since Windows XP reached end-of-support. Details on how much the Met Police is paying for custom patches are not available.
PCs now being upgraded to... Windows 8.1
London Assembly member Andrew Boff says that some more PCs are expected to be upgraded to… wait fo...