Microsoft Signs $617 Million Windows 8 Contract With US Gov't

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]Well after all, the best and most successful espionage is usually an inside job. You can get away with it if you're Clinton, though.[/citation]

There's a difference between a scandal that's technically legal (except for lying under oath), and setting a file deletion bomb in the server.

 

[uglynerdman]

microsoft has so many "live" titles, i can just see it now. MSDRONESTRIKE.EXE

 

[frkuout]

Typically, the government won't install Windows 8 until the first service pack or incremental update (whichever Microsoft chooses to go with) because of all the testing that needs to be done to insure compatibility with existing software of the non-Microsoft variety. The announcement that came out to government employees did say Windows 8, Office 2013, and Share Point 2013 to name a few.

As for training to make the switch, there are folks in every organization that are technology challenged and will need help adapting to the new interface. It's not as simple as switch to desktop mode as some here have suggested. They'll be asking where the start orb or button went, why they cannot find the menu of programs, what the heck happened to this or that and so on. So there will need to be training accomplished for the differences between Windows 7 and Windows 8 when it comes to what capabilities are available and how to access particular software/hardware settings. Unless Microsoft cut a deal to return the desktop to normal for enterprise licenses, which I doubt.

 

[Guest]

80% of humanity is retarded. that's why they cant figure out windows 8.

 

[jaws32]

if u.s try to make drone. it will be same like black ops 2. u.s vs china in new cold war.

 

[marcolorenzo]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]Tablet-based OS, in an environment where absolute productivity is required and where employees have to be retrained to switch from Win7 to Win8. Hm...Well, at least it's fairly secure.[/citation]

Congratulations for repeating the same opinion as countless others. And for also proving that like countless others, you don't actually use Windows 8 on a daily basis. If you've actually given Windows 8 a fair chance, you'll know that it's much more than just a tablet OS. Anyone who thinks that, are simply so close minded that their eyes probably have difficulty taking any light in.
By the way, companies provide training for their employees in a number of areas such as switching from Office 2007 to 2010. This doesn't mean that the product is unnecessarily complicated, it just means that there are many out there who are not technologically inclined.

 

[back_by_demand]

Well done Zak Islam, I read this story on a UK website 6 days ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/03/us_dod_signs_win_8_contract/
So you waited until the biggest tech event of the year (because it's a slow news day?) to post this old story?
It's bad enough that some stories on Tom's are days behind but something this big is unconscionable
...
What's tomorrow's big story - Apple releases iPhone 3? Marconi invents wireless? Man discovers fire?

 

[Sumukh_Bhagat]

Now Soldiers will even know that how crappy Windows went after they went for a War.