Bugger me the latest Windows “outages” currently paralysing the world – and quite literally if you are having NHS surgery – take me back to the ’70s when Microsoft OSs were notoriously unreliable and falling over their own poorly tested and poorly written code. (The PC wasn’t invented until 1982 with the first version of Windows not released until 1985, but carry on – NA) There were rolling testing releases to the community which somehow never created a reliable OS. One change/update would set off a whole series of further faults ect ect and trigger the notorious BS of Death, the fault screen advising to switch off (losing all your work) and restart in Safe Mode. Then you can start wanking to this:
So here we go again, synthetic apologies but no lessons learned. Well I learned my lesson years ago and use Linux/Ubuntu (free) and Mac (because certain of my programmes only work in Mac) and when only strictly necessary my own hacked copy of Windows XP (has been around so long most of the bugs have been ironed out). I never use Cloud services so have avoided the current buggeration. Ironic that MS have always been pilloried as the deep throat Bond villains of the World and here we are with the greatest master stroke of World Domination ever perpetrated.
Apparently down to their Security Partner Cloudstrike (sounds like a SMERSH cover name) who wrote and dumped new code on the World without basic fitness for purpose checks. Latest optimistic assessment “Recovery likely to take weeks rather than days”. Very sincerest apologies from Cloudstrike Ceo George Kurtz (classic Bond villain name). Compo conflicts already underway with M’ Learned Friends calculating their massive fees (but definitely not using Windows).
Now we are back to the Stone Age having to learn how to use cash and book holidays ect by filling in forms. Worst aspect of it all is the total swamping of other news and endless tech type personality free talking heads trying to explain what they have yet to understand. This is vindication of the Total Cock-Up theory of history. Anyone wanting to comment on this post will likely have to post it.
Nominated by : Sir Limply Stoke