With all the excitement about Windows 7 arriving soon to kick its predecessor into touch it's a surprise to hear anything much at all about Vista, not least that the entire US army is migrating to the older OS.
By the end of this year the army's entire battalion of almost three quarters of a million desktop PCs will be running Vista, as well as Office 2007 upgraded from the 2003 version.
Compatibility check
Even though Windows 7 will launch well before the end of the year, the military approval process for Vista has long been underway, checking compatibility and security issues.
Vista's better data encryption features are likely to have been a factor in the upgrade decision, but let's just hope the military folk don't mind that pesky little BSOD that comes with it all.
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jrap30
June 3rd 2009
4. I bellieve the real decision is based upon you can NOT upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. So since the DoD has been evaluating Vista since 2007 and the USAF has already upgraded to Vista...the Army decided NOW is the time. Based on the "long" evaluation process..I expect the DoD, USA will try and rush out the approval on W7 a little faster, especially since it is built on the same Kernal. Expect DoD to go to W7 by end of 2010.
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gandharva81
May 25th 2009
3. Its Okay with, That it is surprise enough since Microsoft Going to upgrade but US Army going to use Vista This is nice. And also will increase in productivity of Windows Vista.
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kevcal
May 25th 2009
2. Don't have problems at all with Vista - maybe I'm just lucky, or more likely the O/S has matured - either way I have no need to go to Windows 7.
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louis058
May 24th 2009
1. they won't mind the BSOD, because vista never gets those nowadays, heck, they never got those a year ago!
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