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London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows

Posted by timothy on from the don't-weld-shut-the-doors-then dept.

BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"

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  1. I thought programming for windows was great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Developers! Developers! Developers!" and all that.

    And the problem COULD be that Windows just doesn't work for what is needed.