[Web4lib] Microsoft's Toolkit for Public - Use PC's

[Alma E. Garcia]

Any word on the cost?

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Elizabeth Harman wrote:

> Lois_Kanwischer at baxter.com wrote:
>> Has anyone looked at this?  Any comment would be great.  I know it is in
>> beta, but is it going to be easy to implement / use? Will Microsoft really
>> support it and correct problems?  I could see my group using this, maybe,
>> depending on how difficult it would be to manage.  We have no IT within 
>> our
>> group, and I have limited jsp/html/xml coding experience.
>> 
>> Just wondering about the feeling from this group.
>
> I don't know about support from Microsoft, but this is the Public Access Tool 
> that the Gates Foundation used for the public access machines they donated to 
> public libraries. They modified it to work with XP SP 2 and released it to 
> the general public.
>
> Support will probably be available at the Secure PC site, set up to assist 
> the libraries after the Foundation's support ended. 
> http://www.securepc.org/forum/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
>
> Liz Harman
> Internet Specialist
> Monticello Avenue - Jefferson-Madison regional Library
> Charlottesville, VA
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