I suspect this story won't be highly publisized so in order to be seen to be doing something lots of xp equipment will be scrapped.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 22 May 2017, 11:28,
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You say that like scrapping XP would be a bad thing...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 22 May 2017, 12:04,
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There's probably lots of medical equipment that was programmed to run on XP and is not Windows 10 compatible.
You going to scrap a half a million pound scanner because it needs XP?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 22 May 2017, 12:14,
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^
One trust I worked at had some apparently vital software that was running on a stand alone machine as it was only compatible with Windows 95.
This was in 2008
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Mon 22 May 2017, 12:19,
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Yeah we've got equipment in the uni labs connected to a pc running windows 98
That said, it's not connected to the internet
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gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry, Mon 22 May 2017, 22:49,
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Oh sure
But I'd be willing to bet there's lots of just basic admin machines around that are also on XP and have a clear upgrade route.
Source: We do some work where NHS health professionals are the end users and we're always having to make things IE7 compatible.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 22 May 2017, 13:08,
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