The White House, Obama and the Interweb

Technical Dark Ages

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.

Props to Obama for getting the Executive branch into the 21st Century. There is no reason to be this far behind in basic IT resources, especially not when we pay so much in taxes.