Well, ok, it’s not quite that bad. But according to a story in eWeek, 80% of the desktop computers in the UK’s DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) were disabled for most of last week after a test upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP was accidentally distributed in part to the entire network instead of the small test group it was intended for.
The outage appears to include 75 to 80 percent of the DWP’s PCs (that is to say, up to 60,000 computers are offline) and would be one of the worst outages in the UK government’s already spotty IT history. Anyway … according to The Register’s latest update to the story, the computers were not all back online by the end of last week, despite SWAT teams being flown in from Microsoft and EDS’s US headquarters to help out …
And the quote of the day is: “What does this ‘deploy to entire network’ button do?”
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