Metropolitan Police: 27,000 police PCs still run Windows XP, despite IT modernisation programme
Slow-going migration should reduce the number to "just" 21,000 by the end of September
As many as 27,000 PCs at the Metropolitan Police are still running "dangerous out of date" Windows XP, despite an IT modernisation programme. Windows XP, introduced in 2001, is now so out of data that...
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