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The Obama Administration has ordered US federal agencies to hold off on purchasing new PCs in hopes of patching up a broken ordering system.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has put a hold on new desktops and notebooks while it sorts through what it says are "thousands" of new system orders every year.
OMB said that because agencies lack a standardized way to order, maintain, and replace their IT infrastructure, officials are forced to seek out their own contracts and purchase orders to get new PCs, leading to huge accumulated costs in waste.
"There is no need for thousands of contracts to purchase common laptops and desktops," the OMB said in its order late last week.
What answer do you predict the US government will reach, "Surfaces for everyone!"?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:48AM
Dell? No, it'll probably be a shitty HP.
And how exactly with the drones be happy with Windows 10 anyway? No one likes that shit except for a few total morons.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:57AM
It talks to their Active Directory, does the full Exchange experience, etc. And all of the internal apps. Never forget that one, that is the real secret to Microsoft's power; the zillions of internal apps (ok, forms tied to an Access database in most cases but they are so proud of themselves) that in many cases the source is lost so if binary compatibility breaks they are lost.