Unscheduled upgrade caused government IT death
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An unscheduled software upgrade what was caused some 40,000 computers at the UK government&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to crash, the IT supplier EDS has announced.
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A software upgrade was inadvertently given to PCs not intended to receive it, which made payment processing systems at Britain&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions stop working, EDS&#39; investigation revealed.
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Updates pushed out last week by Microsoft to Windows Vista users to prep PCs for next month's release of Service Pack 1 have crippled some machines, according to messages posted to the company's support site.
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Some 80,000 computers at the Department for Work and Pensions went down during &#39;a routine software upgrade&#39; of its Microsoft machines this week.
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You fail at internet Tiscali's attempts to restore anything close to reasonable internet service for its customers following a botched software upgrade have failed.â¦
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The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has suffered what has been described as the biggest computer crash in government history after a software upgrade.
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Some 40,000 computers in the U.K. Department for Work and Pensions were cut off from their network last month when an IT technician erroneously installed a software upgrade, according to EDS.
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A computer screen upgrade has crashed 80,000 government terminals at the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK. EDS and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) were blamed.
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Payments to tens of thousands of people who receive state pensions and benefits will be delayed after a computer crash at the Department of Work and Pensions.
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Software vendor mulls how to compensate Chinese comupter users effected by a buggy antivirus update last week.
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Staff at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the computers in the sprawling department.
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Y2K flashback? Turning the clock forward early is causing headaches for IT pros, and consumers should pay attention, too.
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NOVEMBER 26, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IT system failures continued to plague the UK government this week, when as many as 80,000 civil servants working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) had to deal with what is being described in the local
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Electronic Data Systems has admitted that an error by one of its computer operators during a Microsoft Windows upgrade caused 40,000 PCs at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department of Work and Pensions to crash last month.
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Overture for update error don't impress Chinese customers whose systems were downed.
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Bye bye to Buy! Buy! Another day, another silly survey, this time claiming that nearly two million UK small businesses are "putting their data and productivity at risk by using old technology to run their business". Why? because they replace their PCs rarely or never, and miss out on all sorts of good things, such as happy staff, cheaper running costs, and smaller "footprints" and lower repair bills.â¦
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A bug that affects the OLE32.DLL library in Windows XP and 2000 could crash the operating system and cause users to lose unsaved data. Microsoft said it is looking into the matter.