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Failed Win XP Upgrade Wipes Out UK Government Agency

Posted by michael on from the automatic-upgrades-deemed-harmful dept.

Lurker McLurker writes "The BBC and the Register report that the UK Government's Department for Work and Pensions attempted to upgrade seven PCs from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, and ended up with BSODs on over 60,000 machines. I wonder if the National Health Service is regretting awarding Microsoft a £500 million contract now." The Guardian also has a good story.

3 of 731 comments (clear)

  1. What should be done first... by bogaboga · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    ...is to fire the IT manager, or whoever sanctioned this method of implementation. How do you fall into such a trap?

    Next, they should setup a similar Linux environment and see how a similar upgrade would have gone. This should be done before the Linux zealots declare that theirs would have been any better.

    In the meantime, let M$ and its cronnies be prepared for the wrath of Linux promoters.

    Cb..

  2. Re:Another nail? by turgid · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Hopefully just another nail in Microsoft's coffin...

    No it won't :-(

    They will be impressed my Microsoft's "comittment to customer service" by having flown out high-ranking people from all over Europe to attend to it.

    They are already to stupid and lazy to see through it all. That's why they chose Microsoft and EDS in the first place.

    BTW I once had an interview with EDS to work on one of these government jobs. They wanted me to cut off all of my hair and go to their corporate boot camp to learn COBOL and IBM S/360 assembler. This was in 1996.

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  3. HAHAHAHAHA... by greatscot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... that's what you get for using Windows. When will people learn?

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