Has the US Army declared war on Windows 7?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Windows 7, Blog, Vista, Windows, Microsoft on
The Army News Service reports that the US Army has opted to form a strategic alliance with Vista by migrating all of its Windows-based computers by December 31st 2009. The systems change, which will include upgrading from MS Office 2003 to MS Office 2007, has been ordered so as to “bolster Internet security” and standardise information systems.
According to Dr Amy Harding, Director of Enterprise Information Technology Services for the Army, currently some 13 percent of computers have already been migrated to Vista. “It’s for all desktop computers on the SIPR and NIPRNET” Harding said, of classified and unclassified networks. Standalone weapons systems networks are exempted, of course.
Some have suggested that the US Army has somehow declared war on Windows 7, but that would be missing the point. It has not said no to Windows 7 but rather not even asked the question as of yet. The decision to move to Vista was mandated in a ‘Fragmentary Order’ that was published way back in November 2008. It takes time and a lot of testing before a decision to upgrade any large enterprise to a new OS can be made, the Army is no different in this regard. If anything, one would hope it takes even longer than an ordinary business in making these decisions. Indeed, any suggestion that Windows 7, which has not even been released yet, should be up for consideration is laughable. As Marcus D. Good, Chief of the Information Technology Systems Support Division at DOIM, says “The Army has been testing Vista since its release and has run it through the Army Golden Master program. The Army Golden Master program is responsible for the release of the Army standard baseline configurations for commonly used computing environments within the Army Enterprise Infrastructure, the team responsible for making sure applications that ran on XP will run on Vista.”
Of course, many will be asking why the US Army is using Windows at all, let alone Vista which was voted the worst performing IT product of the year recently.
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Comment by Matt Parry - May 24, 2009 on 11:37 pm
Bound to be hacked by the Chinese within 2 months
Comment by Richard Chapman - May 25, 2009 on 2:27 am
“migrating all of its Windows-based computers”
And how many would that be? If it’s a significant portion of their desktop computers, then I would say the road they’re on will get a lot rougher. You can learn by watching others go through security and interoperability contortions or you can learn by watching yourself go through it. It looks like they’ve opted for the latter. Oh well.
Comment by - May 25, 2009 on 2:46 am
*Facepalm* Why wouldn’t they taken the turn like the DoD did & migrate to linux. *facepalm* Facepalm* FACEPALM!
Comment by - May 25, 2009 on 5:47 am
Windows? What a bummer. I thought the US Army preferred Linux. How come they changed their mind again?
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/02/05/uncle-sam-wants-tux/
Comment by Jens - May 25, 2009 on 5:57 am
indeed… Windows-based is the keyword here. If I may guess the only windows-based computers allowed in such an important operation are for non-critical operations, such as lower-end non-classified office work.
Comment by Drummer - May 26, 2009 on 4:18 am
…“bolster Internet security”….
I had to laugh.
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