Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Olympic computers crash at second hurdle
>
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> | ONLY THIRTY minutes into the start of second-round ticket sales, the
> | Olympic Games' computer system crashed.
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>
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/01/olympic-computers-crash-second
>
> Guess who is the special partner for this system? It's all Microsoft.
> Sadly, for Microsoft, the Olympic Games' committee (or whatever) has
> already rejected Vista. They'll use XP even though in early 2008 XP will
> have been withdrawn. They bought laptops in advance, from Lenovo, IIRC, in
> order to escape the wrath of the malware called "Vista".
>
Since when is a Windows crash news? We need a different tag for this sort
of thing - how about "thud"?
:)
>
> Related (read in sequence):
>
> Microsoft to take part in the Olympic Games in 2008 with Vista
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> | On Friday in Beijing, the organizational committee for the Olympic Games
> | 2008 and Microsoft China announced that the software vendor would be an
> | official software supplier to the Games, which will be held the capital
> | city of China.
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> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/92112/from/rss09
>
>
> Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs
>
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> | Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the
> | important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing,
> | said the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.
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>
> http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/
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