‘Like Going From an Xbox to an Atari’

Obama administration officials meet the existing White House tech infrastructure:

The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found
computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft
software. Laptops were scarce, assigned to only a few people in the
West Wing. The team was left struggling to put closed captions on
online videos.

Senior advisers chafed at the new arrangements, which severely limit
mobility — partly by tradition but also for security reasons and to
ensure that all official work is preserved under the Presidential
Records Act.

Source: Daring Fireball