<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 21px; ">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. </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 21px; ">The team members, accustomed to working on <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Apple+Macintosh?tid=informline" target="" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); text-decoration: underline; ">Macintoshes</a>, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Microsoft+Corporation?tid=informline" target="" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); text-decoration: underline; ">Microsoft</a> 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.</span><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div> </div></div></span></div><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html?wpisrc=newsletter">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html?wpisrc=newsletter</a></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Abs,</div><div><br></div><div>Cláudio Roberto Heidemann</div><div><a href="http://www.implementsystems.com.br">http://www.implementsystems.com.br</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>