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UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6

Posted by timothy on from the hot-commodity-on-craiglist-london dept.

First time accepted submitter carlypage3 writes "Benefits claimants in the UK are being forced to use Microsoft's now obsolete Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 software. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) states that its online forms are not compatible with Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9 and 10, Safari, Google Chrome or Firefox. As if that wasn't unnerving enough, the Gov.UK website says that users cannot submit claims using Mac OS X or Linux operating systems, either." (Note: as we noted not long ago, it's not just the DWP that's stuck using IE6.)

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  1. Google Glasses Problem by df+Dad · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Warning to anyone thinking of wearing Google Glasses

    As you might know, Google is developing glasses that record your and other peoples moves and actions via secret video camera embedded to glasses.

    This won't be tolerated. You will get beaten and your glasses destroyed. Don't even think about buying and wearing them as this will drastically increase your changes of seriously "injuring" yourself.

    Violence and education is the only solution to Google Glasses problem.

  2. Re:A Plot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They're tories (and lib dems, who will never come close to winning an election again). Their goal is to trash the country and loot what they can for themselves and their friends. They're still pissed-off that people generally like the NHS and approve of the job it's doing.

  3. Re:2002 called. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That is an entirely imbecilic suggestion and completely independent of fact.