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US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

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."

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  1. Vista in .. by anonymousNR · · Score: 0, Troll

    National Security out.

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  2. Bail out by CSHARP123 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Somebody has to bailout Vista. I hope, Army is taking it with pride.

  3. Army Intelligence... by Hercules+Peanut · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...need I say more?

  4. Everyone knows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    our defense budget is too big to not do upgrades like this...

  5. Way to go! by Lord+Juan · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. Give an insane amount of funding to the military at the expense of diving into more and more debt.
    2. Pay for 744,000 licences of Windows Vista and 744,000 licences of MS Office 2007 instead of invest in a better solution based on freely available OSS which could be contributed back to the people.
    3. ???
    4. Profit! (for MS of course).

    I may actually remove step 3 all together, it does looks like the full profit algorithm (for MS of course).

  6. Re:Doh! by mgblst · · Score: 0, Troll

    What is the difference between 7 and Vista? Not a lot.

  7. Re:Doh! by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I had a bad feeling when Vista crashed on the very first boot of my brand new laptop.

    I finally gave it up after it couldn't find a regular USB mouse automatically and decided to stop recognizing my laptop keyboard. I've -never- had those two particular problems on any previous version of windows, though to be fair my win98 and previous stuff was all ps/2, which had its own issues.

    I am thinking of re-installing it though, it sounds like it has gotten a lot better since SP1. And no matter how you slice it, Ubuntu kinda sucks, and a custom linux setup is more effort than I want to expend.

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