United States Army Upgrades to Windows Vista

Category: Operating Systems
Posted: May 28, 2009 08:56PM
Author: Ediseye

The United States Army is now announcing that it will be upgrading its desktop computers, across both classified and unclassified networks, to Windows Vista. Currently, only thirteen percent of the total desktop computers in the Army's total 744,000 systems is running the operating system, so this upgrade will take until the end of this year. Along with this plan, Office 2007 will also be used instead of the partially outdated Office 2003 suite. Right now, half of the total computers are running the new Office, so that particular upgrade itself will not cause too much confusion, other than the ribbon for new users of course. The United States Army is also providing training classes for people who need them however, and will also be handing out short tips for those looking for small assistance.

I love Vista and have no qualms with it, but I'm a little surprised they're not just going with Win7. As far as Office 2007 goes, however, that's definitely the right choice. It takes some getting used to the new menu system, but once you do, you realize that MS actually knows what its doing (sometimes). Though I had no problems with Office 2003, Office 2007 is so much better!

I agree why not just wait till November to upgrade to 7? I'm running Windows 7 as my primary OS, there are a few programs that don't work with it yet but thats to be expected considering it is technically still in beta form.

I would think that they would just wait too, but with all the testing that they do and the deployment of the actual upgrade, it could take another two years before Windows 7 would be used after it launches. So maybe they figure that it's a better choice to go with Vista instead since they have already performed testing on it.

Whatever happened to the "bolted" down version of XP they just did for U.S. Air Force?? http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp