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Most NHS computers still running Windows 7
More than three quarters of PCs across the NHS are still running Windows 7, just six months before Microsoft will cease support for the operating system.
The NHS operates approximately 1.37 million PCs, and, as of the end of June, some 1.05 million of them were still being run on Windows 7. This equates to 76 per cent of the total number of PCs.
Microsoft is ending support for the 10-year-old operating system on 14 January 2020.
Former Department of Health and Social Care minister Jackie Doyle-Price said: “National Health Service organisations are being supported to upgrade existing Microsoft Windows operating systems, allowing them to reduce potential vulnerabilities and increase cyber resilience.
“All NHS organisations, with the exception of one which had already upgraded to Windows 10, have signed up to receive Windows 10 licences and advanced threat protection. Deployment of Windows 10 is going well and in line with target to make sure the NHS is operating on supported software when Windows 7 goes out of support in 2020.”
Doyle-Price was responded to a written parliamentary question from shadow Cabinet Office minister Jo Platt. She maintains that the health service remains on track to upgrade to Windows 10 before that date.
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