I was watching an US ARMY commercial on tv, (commercial was like: it was night, 2 police were in a car, asked some ppl where some army kid got computer training, he was in a gang of ppl, and looked kinda drunk, Police say It crashed again. The kid says reboot and w/ f8 and go into safe mode, later they restart it, and the computer make an old apple macintosh Bong sound.)

So my question is, does the army/police windows?

The answers is Yes they typically do use windows.

Yes. They have large contracts with Microsoft.

I seem to recall reading somewhere, though, that the army uses Red Hat Linux for back end servers (maybe for payroll or something). A google also shows the army uses Linux for some of its research supercomputing (not terribly surprising, as most scientific supercomputing is done on Linux or Unix systems). Oddly enough, http://uptime.netcraft.com shows that www.army.mil runs on OS X.

I would image most desktop machines are Windows, though. I would suspect that like most large organizations, the U.S. army uses different machines in different roles.

Yes, my mother is a social worker for the Navy, she says all of their office machines run Windows 2000.

I have worked on a contract with the U.S. Army's CID, their Criminal Records Document Management system was written in VB6. So their use of Windows would be a big "Yes". I've also worked on the Navy's NMCI (Navy-Marine Corps Intranet). All the NOCs, server farms, and workstations run Win2K. So called "legacy applications" that run on non-Windows platforms are most emphatically NOT supported. That's one of the biggest end-user bitches about the NMCI. If you have a mission-critical "legacy application", you have two computers on your desk - your old one and the new EDS supplied NMCI computer. On separate networks that do not, cannot, and will not communicate with one another. Stuckin' fupid.

Personaly I am shocked because i always thought that
Us armed forces would be using some other os
--HEY THEY CREATED INTERNET (virtually) ! how can they use lame !@#!@ os like windows?!