The Welsh Assembly Government IT facilities seem to be about three years behind everyone else. Well no-one expects them to be ‘cutting edge’ but 3-4 years behind? What on earth have they been doing? Is it a cunning plan to prevent data loss or data mishandling in that they don’t have the IT facilities to lose handle the data adequately in the first place?

The Welsh governing body is three-quarters of the way through an upgrade to Windows XP that will be completed in 2009, according to CIO Dr Michael Harrington.

The authority began upgrading from the Windows NT4 operating system in 2004 and Harrington said the authority, which employs 6,000 staff, did not feel ready to make the leap to Vista.

Source; Silicon.com

And why to Microsoft products when it would be cheaper and better to consider newer Open Source solutions?