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Then it follows that there must be US government procurement documents that ban Windows 8 on government computers, as it would be part of the spec. Perhaps some
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
Then it follows that there must be US government procurement documents that ban Windows 8 on government computers, as it would be part of the spec. Perhaps someone should tell Reuters, they might have forgot in all the excitement.
- Retric 12y agoThat's not how things work. US procurement is not going to leave the OS choice up to a third party so they may require win 7 but there not going to ban win 8. If for no other reason that offline computers are 'secure' enough for testing and the government has a lot of proprietary apps.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI suspect that whether a given government software spec includes blacklists, whitelists or a combination of both depends largely on who wrote it. Unless someone can show me that exclusive whitelisting is enforced US policy, I would think there will often be documents detailing which versions of software are not to be used on a given contract, as well as which ones are.