By Ingrid Marson
Published: Friday 26 November 2004
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Name
Richard
Location
UK
Occupation
Puzzled Taxpayer
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How did the DWP keep this so quiet?
Apparently, 80,000 desktop PCs failed on Monday 22nd November, but the media reported nothing until Friday 26th November.
Even now there is very little real information, just rumours that PCs running MS Windows 2000 had somehow been loaded with SP2 for Windows XP.
Finally, the Minister claimed that "few people outside the DWP had been affected" by this massive failure which disabled 80% of DWP PCs.
If that is true, are these PCs really necessary or useful?
Have the benefits of networked PCs been oversold?
Brought to you by your friends at EDS outsourcing....
John Goodwin
How did the DWP keep this so quiet?
Apparently,...
Richard
Richard - the PCs were running Microsoft Windows, ...
Justin
HAHAHAHAHA that'll teach them to use EDS bloody us...
mark
EDS - Does that stand for "Every Desktop Screwed" ...
Anonymous
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