Metropolitan Police still running Windows XP on 19,000 desktops

Dan Worth
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The good news is that 15,500 machines have been upgraded - to Windows 8.1

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is still running 19,500 desktops on Windows XP, despite the operating system having gone out of support two-and-a-half years ago. However, this is a decline...

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