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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.

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  1. Someone must deeply regret by Lakedemon · · Score: 0, Troll

    throwing Windows 2000 away for Win xp...
    or not using
    Linux
    or
    Macs
    or
    Solaris and sun hardware....

  2. Re:The reason for the upgrade by Not_Wiggins · · Score: 0, Troll

    They wanted that new version of Internet Explorer with the fancy built-in pop-up blocker.

    Looks like they got a deal; they got the version that also blocks viruses, worms, and abuse of Solitaire! ;)

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    Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
  3. Still Microsoft's fault by dema · · Score: 0, Troll

    Although numerous people have pointed out that this was the fault of EDS, and not the OS. We can still blame MS as the EDS sysadmins are probably all MCSE (: