Government still running Windows XP

Friday, 26 May 2017 00:00

The government says it still has a small number of computers running Microsoft software which stopped being supported three years ago.

This week in the House of Keys, Policy and Reform Minister Chris Thomas faced a question for written reply about the number of government computers running old software.

Although he didn't give numbers, he said there were a small number of PCs still running Windows XP.

Mr Thomas said although running old versions of Windows can be insecure, the systems are being decommissioned.

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