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Re: [LUG] OT: Advice for Windows XP Users

 

On 30/03/14 16:33, Simon Avery wrote:
> 
>     I've heard horror stories about hospitals still runnnig XP.
> 
> 
> That was certainly the case in Derriford A&E last year.


Trust me, this is certainly the case for the *entire* NHS (I'm in a
position to have 'inside knowledge' for obvious reasons). Virtually
every single admin workstation across the entire trust is still running
XP with the Win7 migration woefully behind.

It's understandable that specialist manufacturer-supplied workstations
acting as the control point for several million pound MRI scanners and
DNA sequencers might be constrained to running XP but they can be
air-gapped and isolated from the network proper. I have customers
running industrial plant controller PCs still on Win2k and NT with no
problems (with no network access, obviously).

The NHS is crippled by the morons running the show at the top, sadly.

Regards


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