Want To File For Aid Online? Better Run Windows

[Bob Hubbard]

Want To File For Aid Online? Better Run Windows

Author: Gary Krakow Source: MSNBC

Title: WANT TO FILE FOR AID ONLINE? BETTER RUN WINDOWS

The good news: If you've survived Hurricane Katrina, the government will let you register for help online. The bad news: But only if the computer you're using is running Windows.

Yes, it turns out that to make a claim with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Individual Assistance Center, your Web browser must be Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 or higher and you must have JavaScript enabled. It even says so right on the page itself. One problem: IE6 isn't available for Macintosh or Linux computers.

Complaints about government Web sites requiring Microsoft software aren't new, of course. (MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.) But this is one instance that struck particularly hard for some. Options: [Read Full Story]
From Witches Voice

 

[Rich Parsons]

So those court battles about a monopoly were for nothing? :idunno:

This is not good.

 

[Andrew Green]

Not just windows, but an up to date Windows...

Although it apparently will work with other browsers if you set the User Agent tag to identify you as running IE 6.0.

 

[OUMoose]

There is a phone number as well (which at the moment escapes me), which I would gladly use instead of IE.