[Novalug] can you make linux work with websites that insist on Windows and IE? if so, how?

[Nino Pereira]

List,

two US Government web sites I need absolutely, positively insist that
they work only with Windows (XP or older, actually) as the OS and IE
as the browser. Nothing else will, apparently, pick up the subtle
commands that the Windows&IE combination reacts to.

 From what I can tell, the maintenance of these sites is contracted
out to a Microsoft-only shop, or perhaps even to Microsoft itself.
Some people at these sites bemoan this limitation, others don't
care, but the problem is: I have to ship files back and forth from
my linux machine to an old, marginally useful Windows box that I had
sitting in a corner somewhere, a real pain.

Can anyone recommend a way to get around these limitations, or,
if this doesn't exist, an article that tells me what is so special
about Windows that it doesn't play nice with others?

Thank you,

Nino