White House Tech More Tired Than Wired

Prior to his inauguration, Barack Obama was, without a doubt, eagerly anticipating taking his seat in the Oval Office. What he likely wasn't looking forward to was time-traveling backward into a workplace riddled with obsolete technology.

Any tech geek recognizes that modern technology is far more than a means to an end: Whether we own iPods, Zunes, MacBooks, iPhones or BlackBerry smartphones, our gadgets have become intimately integrated into our lifestyles. So you have to feel the pain of Obama and his team, who drove the most tech-savvy presidential campaign in history, for having to cope with the White House's bureaucratic IT swamp.

"It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of the White House's outdated tech.(Chen, 2009)

Every one of these seem very sensible to me. Especially sticking with a stable and relatively safe XP over Vista (Although you could make an argument to a switch to Macs).
Their job is to run the country, not spend pointless hours playing on MySpace or Facebook or watching YouTube Videos.
And why do they need WiFi? They're not going to be taking their laptops around with them so everyone can see how cool and hip they are because they can get on the internet anywhere. A wired network makes much, much more sense for a dozen reasons.Get over it already, Wired.

Chen, Brian (2009,1,23). White House Tech More Tired Than Wired. Retrieved January 24, 2009, from wired.com Web site: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/wired-or-tired.html