On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 05:00:01PM +0100, Ben Tasker wrote:
That's what I've read. Microsoft provided patches in March for nominally unsupported Windows versions with custom support contracts. The NHS, for example, had dropped its XP support contract in ~2014. Cheap bastards ;)
To be fair, it wasn't the NHS that dropped that contract, it was the Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The NHS actually made a bit of noise about just how stupid it was at the time.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/microsoft_stockpiling_flaws_too/ Money talks Custom support is a big earner: Microsoft charged Britain's National Health Service $200 per desktop for year one, $400 for year two and $800 for a third year as part of its contract. UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt cancelled the contract after a year as a cost-saving measure.