[geeks] Windows in the DoD, was Re: [rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Moved to geeks...

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 @ 22:23 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> Personally, I think some general or admiral in the Pentagon is either
> totally out of their fucking mind, or got a really huge pre-retirement
> kickback from Microsoft.

A few years back the Navy got a new head of procurement, and he's a M$
fan.

COTS is a good idea in a lot of ways, but not when M$ is one of the only
choices for certain things, and is shoved down everyone's throat for
others.

Handheld systems are often WinCE based...

The only thing I've seen so far is units for doing inventory, but I
would not be surprised to see it on the battlefield.

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