Met Police to finish long-running Windows XP migration by May

Nicholas Fearn
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Met Police's Next Generation Desktop programme was started in January 2015

London's Metropolitan Police will finish its Next Generation Desktop Windows XP migration project by May this year - almost three-and-a-half years after it started the shift from the insecure and o...

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