Mailing the story:

The US Military is by turns cutting edge and clueless. On one hand, they embrace cloud computing and social media tools, yet think it's worthwhile to upgrade from Windows XP/Office 2003 to Vista/Office 2010 when Windows 7 and Office 2010 release are imminent (and it would make more sense to move large numbers of employees to Linux and OpenOffice and save the tax payers a few bucks). Like any large organization, they make good and bad decisions when it comes to technology.