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Old 15-05-2017, 19:28   #67
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
As papa smurf said the fault here lies with the Government and the NHS. You simply cannot justify using XP so long after it's release and long past it's generous support window ending. They had more than enough time to to update or commission new software that was dependent on XP. They had more than enough time to update the hardware. Microsoft have been aggressively warning about the end of support for over 5 years.
Aside from the fact it takes a long time to do such things, its also incredibly expensive and complex.
(do you know how many computers the NHS has ?, last estimate I heard was in the hundreds of thousands).

Just imagine the cost of liceces for all of them, plus many would not have the hardware to support newer windows versions, so that needs replacing as well, and then there is huge amount man power needed to change them over.

Its not some 5 minute job.
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