US Department of Defense orders upgrade to Windows 10
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Microsoft reports that the U.S. Department of Defense has ordered all its agencies to upgrade their existing Windows machines to Windows 10. That amounts to four million systems. The DoD has set an ambitious timeline of just one year for the transition.
The move was foreshadowed by a memorandum from the DoD CIO dated November 20 of last year. In that memo, the CIO said it's important to make the transition "in order to improve our cybersecurity posture, lower the cost of IT, and streamline the operating environment". ...