Re: From North of the Border
This argument is over-simplistic, straight off the front of the Daily Mail. It neglects all the other costs involved in such an upgrade. To name a few: Planning costs for the new deployment - There are thousands of machines and users here, Production and testing costs for the new deployment images, staff costs to perform the upgrade work, replacement PCs for older-generation hardware that may not play with Windows 10, hardware disposal costs for retired hardware - expensive since medical data is involved so the disposed hardware must be sanitized, possible storage and RAM upgrades in machines kept, upgrade fees for the software that runs on the machines because the currently in use version doesn't work on Windows 10, upgrades to any central IT management systems in place, replacement of random peripherals or equipment because Windows 10 drivers/software aren't available, staff training costs for the new OS/hardware/software, increased support costs during the 'bedding in' phase for the new systems...
How is such an upgrade going to be performed? How long an outage can the users each machine tolerate during the upgrade work? Does a whole-machine swap need to be performed on any machines to minimise downtime?
You can deny there's a health funding crisis all you like because it doesn't fit your political world view but that doesn't make it true.
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