excellent! U.K. GOVERNMENT HIT WITH ANOTHER LARGE COMPUTER FAILURE
LONDON -- IT system failures continued to plague the U.K. 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 press as the biggest computer crash in government history. "Microsoft issued a short statement on Friday saying that it worked closely with its partners to help rectify the situation and support the DWP, but declined any further comment. Representatives from EDS could not immediately be reached for comment. "The head of the DWP, the government secretary Alan Johnson has promised an internal inquiry into the systems failure and the role Microsoft, of Redmond, Washington, and EDS, of Plano, Texas, played in the crisis." http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A2D75E:1F5C3D3
