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Story: Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 2 December 2004, 2:15 PM)
This was an EDS error, MS are not at fault (this time). Lib Dem Richard Allen incorrectly says elsewhere the problem was caused by attempts to upgrade 2000 to XP. This is not the case. It was an XP upgrade for a few selected terminals in the London area (already running XP) that that accidently got applied to the whole network. As the majority of terminals run 2000 the upgrade caused them to crash, the results of which are known.
I don't wish to offend the EDS employee who has already posted but as an employee of the Gov department concered I rarely hear a good word about EDS and the work they do for us.
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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
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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 -
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
