DWP kills 60k+ PCs in Windows upgrade lash-up

Posted by dave on Nov 26, 2004 9:28 AM EDT
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Most of the desktop computers in the UK's Department for Work and Pensions were paralysed for four days on Monday, when a failed upgrade took them offline. The outage, covering 75-80 per cent of the DWP's 80,000 PCs, is one of the largest in the UK Government's not entirely impressive IT history.

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