It should be already understood in positions like that, that when a new administration comes in everyone can be expected to submit their resignations. It is then up to the administration to keep a person in place or put their own person in.
Gotta hand it to you. You've explained multiple times why you think the election needs to be investigated, and yet each new MPD comes back and wants you to explain it again.
After I read more, I'm beginning to think the "migration" will need to be a "clean install".
The Toughbook is 64-bit capable and I do plan on running it with more than 4GB RAM.
From my initial reading of the Microsoft instructions, it sounds like they take care of all of that. All I have to do is create the install file and backup anything I want to save.