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RE: [edlug] Killer Questions for Microsoft
It's great to hear that another UK government department has become web standards compliant.
So this was not a 'killer question for Microsoft' at last weeks debate either. I don't think any of the audience questions were 'killer' for either the IBM or Microsoft representative on the night, and on balance the Microsoft rep handled the audience questions better.
I wonder what the questions we would have liked to have asked are?
Mine is;
"I help manage a small company with 15 workstations and 5 customer/internal facing servers. I already use Linux of various distributions for my server activities. How is upgrading by 15 units of workstation hardware, plus Microsoft Windows XP and Office 2003 at approx £25k cap ex a more viable business proposition than staying with the same hardware and upgrading to say Novell/SuSE 9.1 at approx £1500 cap ex?"
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"Tell us more about IBM's rumoured plans to support Novell/SuSE Linux on the enterprise desktop."
P
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Sent: Tue 30/03/2004 20:40
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Subject: Re: [edlug] Killer Questions for Microsoft
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:32:17 +0000
Andrew Veitch <andrew@xxx.xxx.xxx> wrote:
> Microsoft were paid 25 million pounds of taxpayers' cash to develop a
> government gateway but contrary to the e-Envoy's guidance it only allows
> Internet Explorer users to access government services. When will I as a
> non-Microsoft user be allowed to submit my tax return online or
> alternatively when will Microsoft refund the 25 million quid?
I managed to submit a tax return using Galeon/Mozilla.
>From the Inland Revenue help page :
http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/menus/help-technical.htm
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Q. Which browsers can I use to access this website?
A. We recommend the following minimum browser and operating system combinations:
* For Windows PC: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, Netscape Navigator 6.2.2, and Opera 6.01.
* For Macintosh: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1, Netscape Navigator 6.2.2.
* For Linux: Netscape Navigator 6.2.2.
* For users with disabilities the following are recommended: For Windows PC: Jaws 3.7. Lynx 2.8.3.
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It looks like they have that problem sorted now.
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Patrick A. Wallace, paw [at] rsc [dot] co [dot] uk
Bad things happen when doctors say "Wow!"
--alt.religion.kibology
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