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Nice try L.U..
Those computers were upgraded to Win2k not WinXP. They had to go back to a earlier version of windows that could access the database program that was custom built for them in the early 90s. It was the database program's limitation, not Window's.

"Even the bureau's two primary case-management systems, called CLAIMS 3 and CLAIMS 4, are accessible only to certain staff at certain offices. These rely on proprietary software developed by a string of contractors in the early 1990s, "do not share data, and are extremely expensive to modify," the ombudsman concluded. (CLAIMS stands for Computer Linked Application Information Management System.)"

More custom crap from the past. But you knew that. wink

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