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

[Barbara Mitchell]

Welcome to the REAL WORLD!!!

from me, a former educator who knows about archaic things. The 2GS's  
were working fine back in the day, but we HAD to switch to Windows. I  
won't tell you about all of the problems that spawned and we weren't  
even ONLINE then....





On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Charles Firth wrote:

> 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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