[Infowarrior] - London Met Police’s 18,000 Windows XP PCs is a disaster waiting to happen

[Richard Forno]

London Met Police’s 18,000 Windows XP PCs is a disaster waiting to happen
by Sean Chan

he majority of PCs used by the London Metropolitan Police are still running Windows XP, which has been completely unsupported since 2014. The London Metropolitan Police are still using around 18,000 PCs powered by Windows XP which truly is a horrifying number. The police force has already started upgrading its PCs from Windows XP — but rather than upgrading to Windows 10, the force is upgrading the PCs to Windows 8.1 instead. The force was initially planning to get all of the Windows XP PCs to Windows 8 by March 2016 but that was a failed attempt.

Right now, more than 14,000 PCs are powered by Windows 8.1 at the London Metropolitan Police service. And what about Windows 10? Only 8 PCs at the police force are powered by the most secure version of Windows right now. Steve O’Connell, the spokesman of the 0Conservative London Assembly said in a statement:

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