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Obama Takes Step to Improve Government Technology

posted by azrael on Tuesday August 12 2014, @02:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the even-bigger-government dept.

AnonTechie writes:

On Monday the White House announced the creation of a team of digital experts tasked with upgrading the government's technology infrastructure and making its websites more consumer friendly.

The move is aimed at avoiding a repeat of the website debacle that marred the rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation last year. While the administration ultimately surpassed its enrollment targets, the opening weeks of sign-ups were riddled with website troubles that raised questions about the administration's competence.

The new digital team will be overseen by Mikey Dickerson, an engineer who took leave from Google in order to oversee fixes to the HealthCare.gov site. 

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 12 2014, @04:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 12 2014, @04:39PM (#80511)

    They're replacing all the HP Pavilion Pentium 200mhz mmx pc's running win95 with Dell dual core refurbs running win98 at a cost of $3.8 million per computer.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by present_arms on Tuesday August 12 2014, @05:24PM

    by present_arms (4392) on Tuesday August 12 2014, @05:24PM (#80522) Homepage Journal

    Not 98, but NT 3.51

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by paulej72 on Tuesday August 12 2014, @06:14PM

      by paulej72 (58) on Tuesday August 12 2014, @06:14PM (#80529) Journal

      And the real cost comes from back porting IE 6 to that platform.

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      • (Score: 3, Informative) by present_arms on Tuesday August 12 2014, @06:47PM

        by present_arms (4392) on Tuesday August 12 2014, @06:47PM (#80549) Homepage Journal

        It'll be in the updates soon, around August next year they have to deploy NT4, poor bastards

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 12 2014, @06:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 12 2014, @06:18PM (#80530)

    And what about Windows for Workgroups?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 12 2014, @10:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 12 2014, @10:14PM (#80625)

      No 3.5 Floppy drives, they do have 5.25 Floppy drives though!