Scott Maucione: DoD chooses Windows for desktop upgrades

Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen has notified employees that all of the department's PCs now using any Microsoft operating system wi...

Scott Maucione, DoD reporter, Federal News Radio

Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen has notified employees that all of the department's PCs now using any Microsoft operating system will be upgraded to Windows 10 by January 2017. Secretary Ash Carter will publish an execution order with details on the secure configuration everyone is supposed to use. Copies will come from the so-called secure host baseline image. For insight into how this will work, Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione spoke with Nigel Hughes, the vice president of sales at systems integrator SteelCloud. He shares the latest on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.  Read Scott's related story.

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