Strange new computer world

Political ideals aside, I feel a new kinship with Obama's staffers after reading this article from the Washington Post.

As someone who can't live without her iBook, used an eMac during my stint as an Art Buyer, and is fairly anal-retentive (and really, that's putting it nicely) about the organization and flow of her information, I know first hand how having to make the switch over to PC and still maintain productivity can be rather daunting.

I also noticed that the article mentions that the Microsoft software on said PCs is roughly six years old, and yet they're using it for security reasons. Yikes! If there's one things I remember from the dark ages before my Apple days and even before my Linux days, it's that Microsoft programs weren't exactly the most secure applications in the world. Now, I suppose that the government has some handy dandy high tech firewalls and its own secure software, but the fact that they may be using an early version of Windows XP is still slightly unnerving.