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Windows 10 Compatibility Issues Forcing US Air Force To Scrap a Significant Number of Computers (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the aggressive-expansion dept.

The US Department of Defense has decreed that the Air Force must complete its migration to Windows 10 by March 31 2018. From a report: Failure to do so will result in any systems not running Microsoft's latest operating system being denied access to the Air Force Network. However, because Windows 10 is not compatible with many of the Air Force's existing systems, a significant number of computers will need to be replaced in order to hit the deadline.

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  1. Re:Are they still using XP? by ZeroPly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Driver incompatibility is the big thing. And it's real - when someone's $2,000 microscope camera works with Win7, but not with Win10, upgrading is painful.

    "Slap in a SSD" is great when you have three computers at home. When you're dealing with thousands, the simplest steps become year long projects.

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  2. Re:govt joins the club by Snotnose · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A better plan is to do gradual upgrades on a schedule.

    Yep, cuz when you're managing 1,000+ systems it's much easier to deal with 5-10 different configurations than it is for just 1.

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  4. Re:govt joins the club by BronsCon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's much easier to deal with 10-20% of your systems being down due to a vendor fuckup than 100%, so I's say yeah that's probably true in this case.

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  5. Linux by stooo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Use Linux

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