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UK Police to Install Windows 8 in Patrol Cars


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Microsoft has apparently managed to score yet another important win, as the Hertfordshire Constabulary police has decided to install tablets running Windows 8 in police cars.

WinBeta is reporting that several Vauxhall Astra police cars will get touchscreen Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1 in the coming weeks as part of a trial supposed to help the authorities determine whether the same device should be deployed in the entire fleet or not.

In addition to new Windows 8 tablets, patrol cars will also be upgraded with 8.4-inch touchscreen monitors developed by KME and 4G connectivity to access web-based systems on the go.

Microsoft hasn’t yet issued a statement on this, but it’s pretty clear that Redmond can only be pleased with this announcement, as the company still struggles to make Windows 8 a widely adopted operating system all over the world.



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Early days as it just a trial and theres sure to be a long list of hardware and software issues to go through before its fully adopted.

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I feel so incredibly bad for those cops...setting them up to fail seems to be what they are doing to those cops.

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My plan to take over the UK is comming into effect nicely :-

Phase 1 :-

Windows 8 / 8.1 installed in every police vehicle in the UK

Phase 2 :-

Wait until said police peoples, think it's a good idea to install wifi also in said policey cars and hope that none of the wifi's are secured.

Phase 3 :-

Inject virus OTA (over the air), into said cars, wait for viri to propagate and turn all cars into a torrent seeds.

Phase 4 :-

Order pizza :), whilst chaos ensues.

I'm off to my paddded room now, can I have the blue pill this time please.

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