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John Lavin wrote:
> Hey, Just wanted to let ya'll know what I found out reading wednesday's
> Inquirer (Yup, I do still read print, occasionally). I read about Gov.
> Ridge's State of the State address. Any one else read about it?
>
> In it, he announced some kind of partnership with Microsoft. Oh boy. I
> can't wait. This is all that the Inquirer said about it:
>
> "A partnership with Microsoft Corp. called PA PowerPort to create the
> nation's first statewide Internet portal to help businesses that want to
> go online, potentially allowing residents to register cars, buy hunting
> licenses and transact other business with the state. Part of a $20
> million enhancement of the state's 'e-government' program."
>
> Also, in true Big Brother fashion, he apparently took time out from his
> speech to be praised by Steve Balmer live via a tele-conference and big
> screen projection. Now they don't say how large the screen was or if it
> was above and behind Gov. Ridge...
>
> Anyone have anymore information on this? I'm quite concerned....
>
> Anyway, I'm going to post an editorial to the Inquirer and see if I get
> a response.
>
> On a related note, after I read that article in Thursday's or Friday's
> paper, Microsoft had big insert titled "Are you Ready Philadelphia?"
> which, I'm sure is for their windoze 2k (65k reasons to switch!) release
> this week. One of the highlighted companies is the IQ group. I thought
> that was quite interesting that the IQ group is a poster-boy for
> Microshaft. ;-)
>
> --
> John Lavin
> jlavin1@voicenet.com
>
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I have heard rumblings about this in the past, but not much else. I can
say (since I work for the state gov't) that the state network is running on
NT. And by the way is a complete DOG!!!
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