"Britain's National Health Service is still using a lot of Windows XP systems, for example, and Microsoft will support these at a cost of $200 per desktop for year one, $400 for year two, and $800 for a third year."
the NHS is a fine institution and i'm in no way advocating privatisation.
but this kind of stupidity really p*sses me off. especially when it never gets mentioned by the 'save the nhs' crowd.
the NHS is hemorrhaging money on this stuff and it gets totally ignored in the false (and distracting) privatised vs state provisioned services debate.
The NHS budget should be ringfenced but certain aspects of it should be de-funded - starting with salary for the execs or oversee this kind of stupidity.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
