Obama's staff suffer from ancient technique.

Poor phone lines, outdated computers and not connected to community Web sites: The staff of U.S. President Barack Obama It is not easy to work in the government seat incorporated. For many of the worst: There are no Macs.

 

This team had Barack Obama, the new president of the United States, nobody expected: "It is as you would from an Xbox to an Atari change," said spokesman Bill Burton President of "
Washington Post after his moving into the White House. As he had many of the new government employees shocked when they are on the first day in her new job in the U.S. government tried to set up headquarters.

The problems experienced at first especially the telephone system. The newspaper got that callers who tried the west wing of the building to reach for hours only a busy signal can be heard. Who even tried the main number to call the government, landed in a band announcement to the Web site of the U.S. President,
whitehouse.gov, recalled.

Those who tried, at least by e-mail with the outside world in touch, had little more success. Obama staff, to Macintosh computers are used, saw plenty of dusty Windows PCs to their software in six years is no longer updated. But PC workstations appear in collecting any scarce commodity to have been. Notebooks, which is in the house could move freely, were apparently only very few people satisfied.

Call forwarding to wife

INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS

blogs ONLINE

Obama's office: Take a look at the home of the new U.S. president and his family

Some of the staff take in their plight to help themselves to their communication problems. An official who is only with difficulty through the security checks had managed to use his foreign mobile phone now, because he is neither a telephone or computer at his work that interrupts reported the Washington Post. This is expensive, but at least it works. Another, they say, has responded to the mailbox of his mobile aufgesprochen an announcement, the caller on the phone to his wife recalls. His previous mobile phone he had to submit.

There are new problems such apparently not. Already the Internet Representatives of George W. Bush faced unexpected difficulties, as in 2005 he took office. One week, it took time until he finally get a computer and got a BlackBerry.

The predecessor took less technology

The blame for the current technology in the seat of government plight of the most powerful nation on earth with the ex-President Bush and his employees' fault, however, would be misguided, says Scott Merrill of
Crunchgear. The had their successors hardly knowingly stumbling blocks in the way. Rather, it was probably the case that the predecessor of the current government, with modern technology is not quite so obviously are handled as their successors from the Obama team.

That is why it was in the White House no reason given, the internal information infrastructure to be updated. If you do not use Facebook, not using Twitter to communicate and urgent messages by courier rather than by e-mail, just do not need W-LAN, no iPhone, and no modern computer.

"The Macs are coming"

Obama's team, however, is entirely self-evident with the new media order,
took advantage of the possibilities of the Internet to meet their boss's reputation of "Internet president" to provide.

That reputation, however, the new masters in the White House has not yet entirely meet. In the blog of the president if any of five items are listed, you may comment on any of them. The latest of these is at 21.1. dated, is already two days ago, includes Obama's inaugural speech (interestingly, with the indication that there was applause at the end). There are at "Executive Orders" have plenty of reading material on topics such as Guantanamo and the torture ban.

Thought to have first presidential Webmaster to the new old technique used. By Matt Asay
CNET makes hope in any case, urges patience. "The Macs will come, just as open-source software. Do not over night."

The change also requires time - and the White House a bunch of new hardware.