informationweek.com— Tens of thousands of federal workers are prohibited from upgrading to the latest versions, according to memos seen by InformationWeek.
Mar 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
'In a memo to his staff, DOT chief information officer Daniel Mintz says he has placed "an indefinite moratorium" on the upgrades as "there appears to be no compelling technical or business case for upgrading to these new Microsoft software products. Furthermore, there appears to be specific reasons not to upgrade.'"Amen brother!
I understand them not upgrading to Vista - but Office 2007 and IE7? That's just overkill. I also know from someone who worked at the FAA that not only are they behind in technology, they are lost. According to my source, they are still using Office 98 and Windows 2000. No wonder they don't want to upgrade... they probably are still using x386's and ProDos is the big thing there! Like I said, any idiot can see the uselessness of Vista - but they can at least upgrade to XP... unless thier IT person is just plain retarded.
hackeraceMar 5, 2007
'In a memo to his staff, DOT chief information officer Daniel Mintz says he has placed "an indefinite moratorium" on the upgrades as "there appears to be no compelling technical or business case for upgrading to these new Microsoft software products. Furthermore, there appears to be specific reasons not to upgrade.'"Amen brother!
magusat999Mar 8, 2007
I understand them not upgrading to Vista - but Office 2007 and IE7? That's just overkill. I also know from someone who worked at the FAA that not only are they behind in technology, they are lost. According to my source, they are still using Office 98 and Windows 2000. No wonder they don't want to upgrade... they probably are still using x386's and ProDos is the big thing there! Like I said, any idiot can see the uselessness of Vista - but they can at least upgrade to XP... unless thier IT person is just plain retarded.
himselfMar 19, 2007
finally.... government doing its function: promote the general welfare