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Story: Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 29 November 2004, 4:24 PM)
I find it interesting EDS is involved.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, and I love laughing at them since I personally have migrated to Linux, but I work for a (US) government agency that has a contract with EDS for millions of workstations throughout the world. The migration had been horrible, maintenance is a chore for the average person, and trouble-calls are usually fixed by the user, not the trouble-call desk.
I'm willing to bet that EDS is at fault in this situation, but does EDS even provide non-MS solutions? If I, personally, were running a company, I don't think I could seriously consider EDS for any IT solution. Their track record (from what I've seen) is horrible for cost over-runs and maintenance.
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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 -
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"the point is that MS software shouldn't just fall... Alaric
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I find it interesting EDS is involved.
I'm no fan... Anonymous -
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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