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Science 24 February 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5764, p. 1081
DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5764.1081d
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Macintosh computer users have yet another reason to complain about Microsoft founder Bill Gates: They're shut out of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) new online grant submission system.

As a first step to a paperless process, NIH in December began accepting submissions for small business grants through Grants.gov. But that site uses an electronic form developed by a company, PureEdge Solutions, that only works on a Microsoft Windows platform. A temporary fix for Mac users--Windows-emulating software--hasn't worked out well, according to frustrated university officials quoted in a 13 February story in The Washington Post. PureEdge says a Mac version of the forms will be ready by November.

NIH, besieged by complaints about the Mac flaw and other problems, has already announced that it is delaying electronic submissions for R01 research grants from October 2006 to February 2007.




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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)