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[arachnoid]

Mind it must be the most secure installation of XP ever invented

[Ci7]

maybe the stuff is afraid of change

renumber someone in government minstry was **** of new office '07 saying "oh huh keep that thing a way from my pc,it take me ages to find program functions! "

[+Mephistopheles]

Considering how many corporate or government entities with lesser security requirements than the White House still run XP this doesn't surprise me.

'If it ain't broken, don't fix it!' applies.

[Hum]

No money for software updates, after paying for the wars.

[I_Kaplan]

XP is much more simle. Windows 7 complex for Whitehouse users.

[v1ewer]

The State of the Union address takes place in the House of Representatives chamber of the US Capitol:
http://en.wikipedia....e_Union_address

US Congress may still use ol' Windows [House majority are Republicans, what do you expect? ;-)], but the White House knows better...
http://en.wikipedia....ters#Government
But some offices [like the 1 pictured] may still run XP for compatibility reasons, until the moving-to-Linux process is completed.

[00000000000000000000000000]

Having Windows 7 instead of XP won't make the PCs that much more secure (internally) because XP probably has some government policies and restrictions added. Example: USB drives disabled, EFS, can't run executables, etc.. Making the change to Win7 would seem beneficial but governments don't operate on a out-of-the-box software basis, they have labs that rigorously test everything including windows updates after MS officially releases them, which are probably not automatically installed on their stations like home/small business users. With that said, governments WILL switch to 7 if they realize that there are unfixable security holes which only Win7 addresses.