FEMA Website Requires IE 6 and Windows Computer World: "Hurricane Katrina survivors looking to apply online to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance better make sure they're running Microsoft's Windows operating system and using Internet Explorer Version 6 or higher. Internet Explorer 6 is required for the aid applications, according to information on FEMA's Web site. That means people using Macintosh or Linux computers are unable to file a claim online -- although they can do so by calling the emergency agency by phone." This story is sort of interesting, but not very surprising. The same thing can be said of most popular video games. They won't run on Mac or Linux. The same thing can be said of over 90% of all software titles sold at Wal-Mart. They won't run on Mac or Linux. This being said, it wouldn't have been very difficult for FEMA to design a site that is friendly to all browsers and operating systems. Lazy programming to blame, I'd say.