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Story: Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs
Posted by: Alaric (Sunday 28 November 2004, 12:14 AM)
"the point is that MS software shouldn't just fall over, reguardless of what 3rd party software is installed "
Do not know if that is completely fair. I have software that once installed knocks my Linux servers on their butts. Same for my Windows servers, I blame that on the software developer. The thing is this only happens in the "test lab." You know that place where we test new software, hardware, and other configuration changes before installing them in a production environment. To have this happen to 80,000 machines, is in a single word - unforgivable. However I agree with the previous poster, blame the driver (EDS) not the car (MS). This is operator error not OS error. EDS should be dumped!
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Story: Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs
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Sorry but this is unacceptable and as a cockup eve... NJ -
Microsoft causing PCs to crash unknowingly. How i... Anonymous
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Blame the driver (EDS) and not the car (MS)
MS NOT... Anonymous
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the point is that MS software shouldn't just... alie -
Well, there aren't really enough details... Anonymous -
"the point is that MS software shouldn't just fall... Alaric -
I find it interesting EDS is involved.
I'm no fan... Anonymous
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Didn't they test the upgrade first!!! Anonymous
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Why didn't they do a programmed upgrade to ba... Anonymous
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Basic tenet of change management, apart from testi... Anonymous
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If it's EDS why was there a surprise that the impl... Stephen P. Goodman
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To Quote . . ."If it's EDS why was there a su... Anonymous
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This was an EDS error, MS are not at fau... Anonymous
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I have a feeling that the problem here lies with E... Steve Atherton
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The real problem is that just about everyone consi... Arthur B.
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Get the Fact's ???
As long we don't know the... Egmond MAringka
