LXer: UK.gov confirms it's binned extended Windows XP support
 

Published at LXer:

The UK government has decided, as foreshadowedby The Reg, that it can do without extended support for Windows XP.

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Too cheap to buy Windows 7?

They should be running Linux on the desktop & BSD on the servers!

(That would then save us millions in taxes.)

Better yet, using Chromebooks as frontends to those BSD servers.
Zero maintenance on the user end has a lot going for it.

They're using Citrix thin-clients with Windows 7 as far as I can tell. And they're still struggling with IE versions.