By government agencies they probably ment local and state goverment, because the federal government has a set standard for their servers, and it is not W2K.
Anyone whose spent any time working for government in any form knows that the standard is that there is no standard. Almost every federal organization runs something different and within them you'll often find fractured sub-groups running their own OS'es, networks, etc. It's pure insanity. And Microsoft products are very prevalent, why? Because they're easy to setup so any little departmental guy can have his own server. This is why the NSA has to publish these types of guides because federal computing is a serious mess with differing OS'es and standards all over the place.
This is the same story I got from my phone company (Qwest). My entire neighborhood is on 'pair gain'. The best dial-up anyone can get is 28.8k with 26.4k being the norm and the phone quality (voice) is noticeably poor. An honest sales guy at Qwest was nice enough to tell me DSL will *never* happen unless they invent some entirely knew technology.
Several of the people on my street complained about the line quality in a concerted effort to make something happen. Really quite hopeless I know but it caused Qwest to send out contractors, on Easter day no less, who replaced all the lines on our street. Just the copper from the poles to the houses. Of course it didn't help at all but it was interesting to see the telco reaction and we were really excited (stupidly) for those two hours while they replaced the lines.
I really think I should only pay half price for my phone service because that's about what I'm getting.
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This is the same story I got from my phone company (Qwest). My entire neighborhood is on 'pair gain'. The best dial-up anyone can get is 28.8k with 26.4k being the norm and the phone quality (voice) is noticeably poor. An honest sales guy at Qwest was nice enough to tell me DSL will *never* happen unless they invent some entirely knew technology.
Several of the people on my street complained about the line quality in a concerted effort to make something happen. Really quite hopeless I know but it caused Qwest to send out contractors, on Easter day no less, who replaced all the lines on our street. Just the copper from the poles to the houses. Of course it didn't help at all but it was interesting to see the telco reaction and we were really excited (stupidly) for those two hours while they replaced the lines.
I really think I should only pay half price for my phone service because that's about what I'm getting.