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German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection
An anonymous reader writes "German IT magazine Heise reports (original in German) that the Ministry of Education in Schwerin had a Conficker virus infection on 170 machines, that was dealt with by simply throwing them on the trash. Other German authorities have now decided that 'the approach taken is not up to the principle of efficiency and economy' and that the 187,300 Euro invested in this radical form of virus removal were inappropriate. The ministry had earlier estimated the cost of cleaning their desktops and servers by more conventional means to 130,000 Euro."
To THAT I agree. I have installed Windows 8 last night on a laptop for testing purposes. W8 installation was OK, then I updated drivers, installed Office 2013, ran Windows Update and it restarted to finish installing updated. Boom, blinking screen upon login.
I searched Google and found over 13 million results for "Windows 8 Blinking Screen". Good job, Microsoft!
Windows 8 sucks big fat black cock.
(to some it might sound appealing, no judgment though)
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)