UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support

The Register
Nov 5, 2025, 4:21 am151 pts
After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has spent £312 million (c $407 million) modernizing its IT estate, including replacing tens of thousands of Windows 7 laptops with Windows 10 – which…

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