[LINK] The White House IT -- a joke!

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Well it sounds like the previous administration did have one area of fiscal 
responsibility!
Scott Howard wrote:
> Can you imagine any "company" where one day most of the staff leave, and the
> next day an entirely new batch of staff come in to start working?  That's
> pretty much what has happened, and it's hardly surprising that things didn't
> "just work".
> 
> As for "six-year-old versions of Microsoft software", at a guess I'd say
> this would referring to either Windows Server 2003 or Office 2003 - both of
> which are still by far the most common versions of these programs, and
> exactly what you'd expect given the above scenario.  They can't be referring
> to Windows XP - it's closer to 8 years old...
> 
>   Scott.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:
> 
>> One member of the White House's new media team came to work 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, accustomed to
>> working on Macintosh computers, found machines outfitted with
>> six-year-old versions of Microsoft software. Laptops were scarce,
>> assigned to only a few people in the West Wing.
>> [more]
>>
>> http://www.theage.com.au/world/dial-m-for-mayhem-in-obamas-blight-house-20090122-7nw1.html?page=-1
>>
>>
>>
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