Defense Department to put Windows 10 on 4M computers

The U.S. Department of Defense will standardize 4 million computers on Windows 10, a significant endorsement for Microsoft's latest operating system.

The announcement is the largest deployment of Windows 10 in an enterprise setting to date. The goal is to have all of the DoD's computers that are running older versions of Windows upgraded to Microsoft's new OS within a year.

That's a fast timeline for an organization of the Defense Department's size, especially since Windows 10 hasn't 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.

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