![]() ![]() Kable's GC weekly is a free email newsletter covering the latest news and analysis of public sector technology. This article was originally published at Kable. And we'll keep it that long because the costs of getting a working desktop in the first place are so absurdly high that doing anything else is completely irresponsible," he added. "It takes that long for a desktop operating environment to get so long in the tooth that no matter what you do you can't keep it going any longer. He also envisages that the DWP will keep the new desktop estate "for maybe a decade". ![]() Considering we're presently struggling along with XP, this will be a bit of a leap from where we are presently." ![]() "We're going to have the latest Office, the latest Windows, and all of it will be delivered via the network to clever thin client terminals or thin spec notebooks. I guess it proves, again, that change is the only constant," he said.ĭespite this, Gardner said that the department's recent £200m deal with Fujitsu to refresh its desktop estate includes Microsoft's software. "It feels funny, doesn't it, thinking about Windows in the context of it being irrelevant, after all these years we've relied on it. ![]()
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