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The NHS remains tangled with legacy Windows deployments—an uncomfortable but avoidable risk that surfaced again when a 2014 Freedom of Information exercise found widespread Windows XP use across sampled trusts, even as Whitehall negotiated a short-term, paid extension of Microsoft support to buy...

The NHS has begun quarantining medical devices that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11, after a handful of clinical-supplier vendors refused or failed to certify their software for Microsoft’s current desktop OS — leaving hospitals with a stark choice between isolating essential kit, paying steep...