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

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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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Comments (2)

a_hippie ·
I can't imagine toasting 80,000 computers in one single moment of "oops. . ."

Think about the money that it takes to license such a department!

Wow

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Wishing you well.
AnonymousCoward ·
It'd be just like being a s|<r1pt |<1dd13 but without the anonymity.

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