Look, The DoD uses Windows for shear monstrosity of the network users and their demographics. Average 18 year olds entering the military to Major Generals have used some form of windows. The same cannot be said of Linux or UNIX unless they were Technologically savvy/.ers. Colonel's would have a hell of a time learning Linux, trust me - they have a hard time with email. The tech savvy individuals will probably pursue some sort of computer related field in the military as well, where windows is most definitely not the answer as many pointed out. I.e. up time, security, etc. The military doesn't use windows, as an end all is all, especially for it's weapons systems. Case and point: I work as a USAF weather forecaster, our weather product dissemination uses a Silicon Graphics box dual booting Linux and WinNT via VMware. They sent me to school just to operate this stuff, as I had never used it in the past. One would find the majority of network *stuff* that matters to the DoD, not access to Yahoo, runs from something other than windows.
Just my.02 cents
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Look, The DoD uses Windows for shear monstrosity of the network users and their demographics. Average 18 year olds entering the military to Major Generals have used some form of windows. The same cannot be said of Linux or UNIX unless they were Technologically savvy /.ers. Colonel's would have a hell of a time learning Linux, trust me - they have a hard time with email. The tech savvy individuals will probably pursue some sort of computer related field in the military as well, where windows is most definitely not the answer as many pointed out. I.e. up time, security, etc. The military doesn't use windows, as an end all is all, especially for it's weapons systems. Case and point: I work as a USAF weather forecaster, our weather product dissemination uses a Silicon Graphics box dual booting Linux and WinNT via VMware. They sent me to school just to operate this stuff, as I had never used it in the past. One would find the majority of network *stuff* that matters to the DoD, not access to Yahoo, runs from something other than windows.
Just my .02 cents