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You can't say that Microsoft don't have a sense of humour. |
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@norega | 11 April 14 |
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http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualiz...escape-from-xp
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@newt182 | 11 April 14 |
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@banbury | 12 April 14 |
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wise to escape although microsoft will continue to offer some malware updates in the form of signatures for at least another year.
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@kenb2321 | 19 April 14 |
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@banbury | 4 May 14 |
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The British Government have just paid Microsoft over 5 million just so they can keep their computers on windows xp for another 12 months. In return they get security updates.
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@newt182 | 4 May 14 |
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I saw that. It is ridiculous. They must not have planned ahead properly. What a waste of money.
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@banbury | 4 May 14 |
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the bizarre thing is, they believe the deal will actually save them money. Their reason behind that is unsurprisingly rather complicated lol The computeractive magazine advised them that they would have been better off putting the money towards upgrading, but of course the government knows best.
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@banbury | 4 May 14 |
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paid updates for xp are also available to the public. But even with them its still far less secure online than windows 7 or 8 so its just a no brainer all around lol. XP was a great operating system, of that can be no doubt, but its had its day and its not fit for the modern world. You cant polish a turd after all lol
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@banbury | 4 May 14 |
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the crazy thing is, you would actually be safer going online with windows 98 today than XP cos nobody targets the 9x operating systems today lol
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@spartan2 | 5 May 14 |
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The problem with upgrading is that Microsoft will only sell them Windows 8 and all the new office programs. Which frankly, would mean that every single department would need everybody retrained and that would also cost gazillions as it's a government job. They should have moved to windows 7 soon as it came out but it came out at the start of a bad recession. So maybe if they hold out until the next version of windows next year that isn't some sort of user disaster 8 was, they will then adopt that. No matter what they do, it's gonna be blood expensive. |
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@banbury | 5 May 14 |
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yes extended support for win 7 lasts untill 2020. but like you say microsoft will only want to sell them win 8
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@spartan2 | 5 May 14 |
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Well even 2020 isn't that far away by the time win 7 were installed everywhere it would only have a shelf life of 4-5 years. The best time to buy is when a new version arrives. If the government is smart and they aren't really  they will use the 12 months as a buffer to pick up windows 9 or whatever it'll be called in a year
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@banbury | 5 May 14 |
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the government said it was a 12 months breathing space but what will happen after that is anyones guess lol The international space station was still using windows xp only a few months ago, but they contracted a virus when an astronaut brought an infected usb flash drive aboard. They now use linux, apparently. I suspect a lot of government computers are now getting quite old so maybe they will just buy new hardware, but I suspect its there antiquated software thats the biggest problem that probably only works properly on windows xp.
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@banbury | 5 May 14 |
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recently, I saw an aricle in science magazine that claimed NASA are planning on getting the internet into space. Maybe the astronauts want to watch catch up tv?!
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@spartan2 | 5 May 14 |
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Really that's why it would be expensive. It would mean new hardware as well as new software. The government are idiots though or basically still corrupt. Someone gets kickbacks to buy expensive equipment. Supplier would charge the government a thousand pounds a machine when everybody else would only pay 300 quid for them. The NHS is the main problem with most of their hundreds of thousands of computers being xp. They should probably go linux. My school at the time went linux not long before I left because it saved tens of thousands, it was fairly unique at the time the ICT head had an article written about the cost savings in a few magazines |
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@banbury | 5 May 14 |
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if they went linux it would save them a bomb
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@spartan2 | 5 May 14 |
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If the whole lot were converted to Linux then it could save the UK government hundreds of millions. However it would require good security measures and a fair bit of retraining.
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@newt182 | 6 May 14 |
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I don't think the government care too much about saving money. They spend 22 pounds on a light bulb that costs 60 something pence.
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@spartan2 | 6 May 14 |
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They overpay for everything that much is true. Whether it's paperclips or aircraft carriers. Some it that is due to them delaying though. The Navy suffered it for years. They plan for 12 destroyers or whatever and build a few. Dilly dally on the rest and as the costs shoot up as it takes years to decide they cancel them. If they had just gone ahead with all 12 straight away they would have got them for the price of the 6 they got in the end because of the messing about. Classic really
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