I am no fan of Microsoft, conclusions based on an N of 1, or any government policy operating on "the end justifies the means" rationale.  But this Post story was a big boo-hoo fed to the conspiracy addicts.  And since I was able this week to successfully install PureEdge on several Macs (albeit with the help of the universities of Wisconsin and Maryland more than Grants.gov), and we now hear of PureEdge applications going through error-free despite lack of sophisticated error checking, I am seeing a light at the Feb 2007 end of the tunnel, and it looks more like a celebration than an apocalypse.

CH

At 12:22 PM 2/17/2006, you wrote:
>It only takes one winner to generate millions in lottery ticket sales.
>
>Seriously though, here is a cross-posting from the AAMC Clinicmail:
>--------------
>
>The Washington Post featured a story this week about problems with
>Grants.gov.  The article begins, "What if the federal government were
>about to give away more than $400 billion in grants, but only people
>whose computers ran on Microsoft software could apply? That is the
>predicament that many scientists, scholars and others say they are in as
>the government enters the final phase of its five-year effort to
>streamline its grant-application process."  The Grants.gov system is
>being constructed by Northrop Grumman under a $22 million federal
>contract.
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR200602
>1200942.html
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On
>Behalf Of Lucretia Hollingshed
>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:04 AM
>To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
>Subject: [RESADM-L] Success with grants.gov
>
>Just wanted to let you know we submitted a Department of Education grant
>without any problems.
>
>Lucretia Hollingshed
>Pre-award Specialist
>Grants & Contracts Office
>Mercer University
>Macon, GA  31207
>478-301-2328
>
>
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