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Began assessing new operating system (O/S) and accompanying productivity
software, likely Windows 8 with Microsoft Office 2010, for larger scale impact and
related training needs.
Initiated construction of plan to test all statewide court software, especially case
management applications. Determined policy for assisting courts in
workarounds for local applications that are not yet Windows 8 compliant.
SNAPSHOT
CLASS STATUS RISK
Utility New High
Enhancement On-going Medium
Frontier Replace/Upgrade Low
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this periodic project is to replace all the State-owned external (ACAP
and JOLTS) and AOC internal PCs (about 3500 total). Because of the long life required
of the new PCs and the ever-shortening support cycle by software manufacturers, the
project also includes a change in the operating system and basic applications utilized by
PCs deployed in the courts’ environment. Standard applications and bolt-ons will be
tested to ensure continued operation in the new environment.
On our last PC refresh a few AOC owned systems were left behind as a fallback plan to
host applications until drivers existed and manufacturers updated their code to work in
the Vista environment. This issue is not expected to recur in moving to Windows 8.
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