That’s not entirely un-reasonable. Hopefully the Navy can get some migration support in that sum a well.
Active Duty ping.
I don’t even have words anymore to question how our country has reached this point.
Back in the early 2000’s I read that the Navy was upgrading some computers on Aegis equipped destroyers as the Navy couldn’t get their hands on enough 286 CPU’s too keep up with attrition.
No big surprise.
64 bit XP tromps everything on the horizon by a cloud and a half.
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I’m surprised this hasn’t happened...-—> /p
Back then, the 286 was still being manufactured by Intel...they didn’t stop until 2007...
That’s cheap. The Navy would lose billions training people how to use the abominable interface of windows 8.
Navy Marine Corps Intranet
$5.51 billion over five years (2012 estimate so you can probably multiply by 3) for old technology, limited access, useless programs, daily issues, slowdowns and shutdowns with email capability that’s circa 1990.
Through a long series of events, my home office is equipped with a Windows 8.1 machine, a Windows 7 machine, and two XP machines.
I read this message and am typing the answer on one of the XP machines, which I use most of the time unless forced to program necessity to use one of the others. I wouldn’t pay ten cents to upgrade either of the XP machines to 7, and you have to pay me - considerably - to upgrade either of them to 8.1. I can tolerate 7, but there are numerous interface points that are simply better in XP.
And before the usual posters chime in:
0 Viruses on any of them.
Strange, but when you keep a quality virus program operating, stay off the porno sites, don’t download ANYTHING from the so call file sharing sites, and don’t open e-mails from Mr. BJ Ombongo, viruses are not near the problem they are made out to be. And as far as XP not having all kinds of links to various social media programs - that’s another reason I like it. I have NO need to hot link my tweets to my Instagram file that I want Outlook to manage and make available to my Facebook friends.
It’s amazing how much better computers work when they are used by adults.
I have some $20K software that will not run on 7, so I have it on a XP machine. I also use $5K software that the latest version will not run on XP. So I have to use 2 different computers at work. It’s a pain. Also ,our IT support sucks so bad I’d rather call some dude in India.
The whole point of Windows 7 and beyond is security, so I think it would have been better to bite the bullet and upgrade the OS’s. The govt is already getting hacked like crazy.
If someone leaks the cypher upgrades and patches, I’ll go back to it myself
We have some systems in place that might be cheaper to do this rather than re-certifying them with Windows 7.
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