Obama vs. Microsoft

"Worse still, they found themselves forced to change from their up-to-date Macs to what sounds like PCs running Windows 2000 or XP and Microsoft Office 2003. Ow!

"It seems part of the problem is that the Presidential Records Act requires all official work and e-mail be preserved. Mind you, that never seemed to be a real concern for Bush's White House staff, which seems to have deliberately destroyed or never recorded more than 5-million White House e-mails..

"Of course, that could have just been Microsoft Exchange doing its usual superb job as a mail system."

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