In doing so, the powers-that-be failed to discover that the primary program that my section relies on is, even according to the creators of the program itself, not compatible and will not work .. repeat, WILL NOT WORK .. on Windows 10 Professional. It is compatible with Windows 10 Home but the Army, in its infinite wisdom, elected to only allow Windows 10 professional on its computers.
When my installation switched over to Windows 10 .. in the middle of the night, without warning .. my section of six soldiers and two civilians became instantly unable to perform our duties .. duties that I would note only we eight perform for the entire installation of tens of thousands of soldiers. We spent the next three weeks completely unproductive as the IT folks, both locally and Army-wide, attempted to find workarounds, which they were unable to do, while querying the creator of the program about workarounds or updates to the program, and, lo-and-behold, they "discovered" that the program was incompatible .. nay, was designed to be non-compatible .. with Windows 10 professional. Additionally, the creator of the program indicated that they had no plans on to adapt their program to be compatible with Windows 10 professional.
So, with my bosses whining to us about our lack of productivity, it was finally decided that they'd kick the can down the road awhile and roll-back our computers .. and only the computers for my section .. to Windows 7. But that then created another problem: in the rollback, about half of the computers went back to Windows 7, but then refused to run the program. And there was no way to reimage them with a new Windows 7 OS because the Army had already created an Army-wide Windows 10 professional image for newly-imaged Army computers, and would not allow new images to be made for Windows 7.
So here we are: almost two months later and we're limping along on half the number of computers that we need to perform our duties in a productive manner, and hoping that the ones that we're able to use now don't go belly-up. Other installations also made the conversion from Windows 7, even after seeing what happened to us, and the sections like mine on those installations are having the identical problems, with no better solutions. But we're still living on borrowed-time. The Army has decreed that all .. repeat, all .. computers used by the Army will be converted to Windows 10 professional by the end of the year, and we've been told that that means ours as well.
Makes the old three ring binders and clip boards look pretty good, doesn’t it? Oh, God bless the morning reports.