To put it mildly this article seems to have brought out of the woodwork all the overly sensitive computerites that think that the "OS war" will somehow be won or lost by the hands of the US government, the government saying that windows is a requirement is necessary only because it establishes a standard base to work from... the average joe moron does not know ssl from shtml as such in order for them to "be able to do their voting using theat trendy little thing called the internet" you have to list something that will have the standards needed already built into the system otherwise you'll have a bunch of people drooling and staring blankly at the screen going "what's SSL? can't I just push the little buttons and be done with it?".
to put my argument simply you must remember that the average user does not care what makes it work as long as it simply does, things only become a concern when they go wrong, The listed requirements are mentally satisfying to an end-user audience. I would imagine the technical specification document (whatever its form) is far more interesting to us geek types.
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To put it mildly this article seems to have brought out of the woodwork all the overly sensitive computerites that think that the "OS war" will somehow be won or lost by the hands of the US government, the government saying that windows is a requirement is necessary only because it establishes a standard base to work from... the average joe moron does not know ssl from shtml as such in order for them to "be able to do their voting using theat trendy little thing called the internet" you have to list something that will have the standards needed already built into the system otherwise you'll have a bunch of people drooling and staring blankly at the screen going "what's SSL? can't I just push the little buttons and be done with it?".
to put my argument simply you must remember that the average user does not care what makes it work as long as it simply does, things only become a concern when they go wrong, The listed requirements are mentally satisfying to an end-user audience. I would imagine the technical specification document (whatever its form) is far more interesting to us geek types.