Windows 10: Surface now approved for U.S. Department of Defense

Source: Surface now approved for U.S. Department of Defense | Microsoft Devices Blog

 

Good news : MS has less to worry about as far as business is concerned.

Bad news : MS probably listens even less to what the " little people " have to say or suggest.

My 2 cent.

:)

 

Is your GPS position 50-100 meters off center?

anarchi I did check FAA website, in fact you are correct, SA is not being used at all, the department of defense is no longer degrading signals, it was only discussed but not implemented so I stand corrected about that and thank you!

 

The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority.

My email is with the US Army / Department of Defense. Windows Internet Explorer thinks the military's website's security certificate is not trusted. Give me a break!!! How can I prevent multiple Ceritificate Errors and logins because Windows can not
handle it?

 

I'd love to know the criteria by which this decision was made. I dealt with Government tenders for years (all tech stuff), so I would find this one very interesting. This decision is quite significant. Kudos to MS.

 

That is good to know that Microsoft has won this

 

Since you have the experience, how significant ?

 

Have purchased one only yesterday, and have spent the last couple of hours updating....these included firmware and upgrading from 10240 to 10586 plus many other miscellaneous bits and bobs....hopefully the last for a while.

Spent yesterday setting it up, including facial recognition for signing in....rather strange seeing the camera turning on to check.

Initial impressions....very impressive piece of kit.

 

Huge.. it's a major amount of money and it's going to be for a long time I bet.

DOD rarely goes cheap when they spend. *Wink

 

Government contracts are always significant to the Private Sector as they want to become the vendor of record. The other significant aspect is the decision to switch vendor- there had to be some damn good reasons for this. The existing relationship is reviewed and the answers provided in the proposal by the vendors are all weighted differently. It is disruptive when products get swapped out and replaced (in large volumes). There are also additional support costs that have to be justified, like training and employee support. Vendors sometimes offer assistance to alleviate these costs. One would assume there was an emphasis on IT security - so maybe this was weighted very heavily in the proposal and Apple did not do as well with their assurances as MS did. That would be significant going forward.

 

I now realise how its passed strict government security testing, only just noticed.....my "C" drive is NFTS (Bitlocker Encrypted).

 

Mavbe that is Device Encryption. You can check that here. Just download or read the PDF in your browser. It will tell you what to do.

OneDrive

 

Bitlocker Encryption is the default setting on Surface Pro 4....it does not effect the computer user.
I have had to ditch my usual AV security as they cannot read my files.