[NPMUG] White House - no MACS, 6 yrs old Windows OS

[Charles Firth]

What's great about this article is how clearly it shows the new team  
is as appalled as we would be - calling the existing network "the dark  
ages"

Best bit:

One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday,  
right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was  
impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which  
computers could be used for which purposes. The team members,  
accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with  
six-year-old versions of Microsoft software. Laptops were scarce,  
assigned to only a few people in the West Wing. The team was left  
struggling to put closed captions on online videos.

On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Fozard wrote:

> Day one glitches at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html
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