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They probably just skipped Vista to save the tax payers a little money, that picture was in 2010. Imagine the headline "Whitehouse wants to spend XX millions upgrading to MS Vista. Is our money being spent wisely?"

It is almost 3 years old as far as an image goes. Where I work we only late last year moved from XP to Windows 7.

Large organizations move slowly.

For many reasons organizations move slowly. One being security. No large organization, especially one handling sensitive information, is going to jump into the first release of any software.

No argument there, just providing a counterpoint on the XP->whatever else at another large organization.

It isn't a quick thing because there is so much to be checked/validated/tested/touched. I don't envy the admins that have to deal with it.

Weird pic. That seems to be an assistant's desk just outside the oval office (which you can see through the door).

to linux

Looks like they took down the photo.

take the junk off the end of the url