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US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista
MojoKid writes "While many organizations are preparing for an upgrade to Windows 7, the US Army is upgrading to Windows Vista. The upgrade will include getting rid of all the Office 2003 programs and installing Office 2007 in its place, and is scheduled for a Dec. 31 completion date. Half the Army's computers (they have 744,000 desktop units) have Office 2007 so far, and 13 percent are on Vista, which was released in January 2007. Windows 7 is supposed to launch before year's end, so the Army will be fully on Vista sometime after Microsoft's next-generation OS is already launched."
Cool, am gonna keep an eye out for harddrives on ebay now, might just come with a free copy of vista installed!
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Someone keep an eye out at -1 for the trolls, I think they're the only way we'll ever figure out who this reflects on more.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Sono Pazzi Questi Americani.
I am sure you are right, but I would keep very quiet too if the last good idea I had was to seek WMD's in a foreign country.
All sarcasm aside, I think this a perfect example of Military Intelligence! ;)
Yes, and the Army seems to have drawn the line with a Ford Pinto.
Yeah, but have you ever had lunch with those MS sales reps?
How many soldiers do you think would say no to Vista if they got a handjob under the table while eating filet mignon out of the deal?
If you always wait for the next design of that shipware, that car, or that style shoes you like you'll never end up with anything.
You need to draw a line somewhere. The Titanic is a good move because it's been available for some time and they've had enough time to test it out with whatever seas they might use. The Olympic is getting more difficult with new cruise tours, and if you want to stay on a White Star Line platform it's the way to go.
The Queen Victoria isn't so much different than The Titanic in terms of the hull design itself, and it's more similar to The Olympic in interface than The Queen Victoria.
I don't understand what the issue is here. I guess some people don't understand how oceanic shipping works in organizations with more than a few hundred users.
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Be yourself no matter what they say
This is just Obama's plan to drastically reduce the size of the military!! Would YOU stay if you had to work with Office 2007 AND Vista? Think about it.
I am not left-handed, either!
I don't think "upgrade" means what they think it means.
Look how long it took Vista to get stable.
Who said it was stable yet?
No CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER OS for OUR boys! They know the MILITARY MIGHT of VISTA is what the world needs! FREEDOM ISN'T FREE and VISTA IS FREEDOOM!
Join SAVE VISTA on Facebook! (Original blog post.) We want ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE to tell Microsoft to abandon their Windows 7 foolishness and go back to Vista! We have 89 so far. Only 99,911 to go!
Like Chrysler, like Hummer, like Edsel - "Vista" is a name that will be remembered as the greatest operating system in Microsoft's history.
Just Say "No" To Seven -
SAVE VISTA!
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All sarcasm aside, I think this a perfect example of Military Intelligence! ;)
The Russians use Linux, so they figured they'll be incompatible to avoid spying.
...this could be dangerous. Are you sure you wish to pull the trigger?
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
The 1st step to cripple enemy networks is convince them that something unsecure is the most secure system of the planet. That is really a subtle plan, but surely will work.
The Russians use Linux
In Soviet Russia, kernel compiles you?
Anybody want my mod points?
You wanna know why? Well, the bailout money has to be spent somehow, right?
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
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whooh! I read this as "running a methlab"
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You've spoken the forbidden words! Now you'll attract the attention of Microsoft marketing!
A plague of uptime posters and a deluge of shills claiming Windows is stable will now infest this thread.
You have been warned!!!
I had a Win 98 system like that. It was sitting under my desk at work and I used it as a foot rest. The uptime that thing had - you wouldn't believe. Granted, the only thing that computer did was keep my legs elevated and my feet warm. But still, it was up 24/7 for well over a year. Maybe Microsoft will use my story in one of their commercials.
As long as the handjob was by Ballmer's hot brazilian female assistant and not Ballmer himself, it would probably convince me too.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
I had longer uptimes that that with windows ME! I once had a 63 day uptime with windows ME (stupid updates making me restart. grrrr :P) Though I did copy over some stuff from windows 98 to use in place of the default ME programs, and used a third party memory manager.
All misspellings and grammatical errors in the above post are intentional and part of my artistic expression.
Yay! Now that Vista Bloatware has sufficient patches *and* hardware it will run sufficiently well to be called stable? FFS Debian + KDE take 800MB and need a 866MHz Celeron with 256MB to run. Yeah man MS is really improving their performance requirements. MSware sucks fucking goats balls when it comes to performance (he said while posting from his Win7 laptop mwahahahahahahahah!). Why do their OSes require constant hardware improvements while delivering basically the same performance in terms of functionality is beyond me. Try transfering more than 5GB of data to an external drive even on Win7 and it will take for-fucking-evah! a simple cp -a folder /dev/hda4 had the data transfered in 5min. MS has had forever to get their shit sorted and they *still* haven't acheived it. Fuck them and everything they stand for. Fucking shitware.