THOUSANDS of UK.gov Win XP PCs to face April hacker storm... including boxes at TAXMAN, NHS

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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2014/01/14/win_xp_uk_gov_hacker_deadline_miss/

By Gavin Clarke
The Channel
14th January 2014

FOIs reveal bureaucrats losing switchover race by widest margin

Exclusive - Thousands of PCs at Britain’s biggest public sector bodies 
will miss Microsoft’s April deadline to abandon Windows XP before open 
season for hackers begins.

HMRC and the NHS in England and Scotland will still be running thousands 
of systems using Windows XP after Microsoft turns off the support lifeline 
on 8 April.

HMRC has 85,784 PCs, of which 85,268 are moving off Windows XP and 58,631 
are ditching Internet Explorer 6.

NHS Scotland has 3,603 PCs with 3,537 on Windows XP and the same number on 
IE6.

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