From PC World: The U.S. Department of Defense is going to standardize 4 million computers on Windows 10, a significant endorsement for Microsoft's latest operating system.
It marks the largest announced deployment of Windows 10 in an enterprise setting to date. The goal is to have all of the DoD's computers that are currently running older versions of Windows upgraded to Microsoft's new OS within a year.
That's an incredibly fast timeline for an organization of the Defense Department's size, especially since Windows 10 hasn't yet been on the market for a year. It's a move to streamline the department's IT infrastructure, which is increasingly important as a key means of protecting from digital attacks.
Wednesday's news is also a sign of the government's confidence in Windows 10, and will be a signal to other organizations about where the enterprise PC market is going. It's unclear yet how much the migration will cost the Defense Department, which spends around $44 billion every year on IT and cybersecurity.
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