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UK: e-Envoy's office defends Windows-only portal - climb down begins?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19340.html

e-Envoy's office defends Windows-only portal - climb down begins?

By John Lettice

Posted: 31/05/2001 at 15:18 GMT

The Office of the e-Envoy is hotly - but not very convincingly - disputing claims that the Microsoft-built UK government portal, gateway.gov.uk, constitutes a Microsoft tax. The authentication systems used for the portal, which is intended to form the cornerstone of the Blair government's plan to get 100 per cent of its services online by 2005, means that you need to be running a combination of IE and Windows to be able to use all the services.

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