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Re:DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid t... by br1n0 on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:45AM (#13914609)
On the photo #4 you can see a man pointing a pretty insecure computer, windows xp :) Should Not be used xp anymore because there is no more security updates or I'm wrong?

The direct link of the image is: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/...

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Re:DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid t... by JamesMcMinn on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:10AM (#13914832)
The image has been used in a number of articles, the oldest of which I was able to find was from 2013 - I would assume the image is older than that even.
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Re:DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid t... by drzaiusapelord on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:48AM (#13914644)
Enterprises can buy expensive support contracts direct from MS and still receive security updates. This is fairly common in big companies and with the government. There's articles about them paying for XP custom support from 2014, I'm assuming they still are.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/07/uk-govern...

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Re:DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid t... by radiowave on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:05AM (#13914792)
It's also possible that these are library photos, and not up to date.
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