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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. Re:Google Glasses Problem by radiumsoup · · Score: 1, Troll

    You're new here, so let me give you a bit of advice:

    1. Prepare for ridicule. You're not providing much of any substance at all, and this little hissy fit has nothing to do with the article anyway. That's not well tolerated here.
    2. Very few people will actually see your post, as it's pretty much going to instantly be moderated down as a "troll" post due to its... well, trolliness, really.
    3. See #1.

  2. Re:Google Glasses Problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    not to go spelling/Language Pedant isn't that properly Bollocks? (which is the UK local version of BS?)