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 They'll use XP even though in early 2008 XP will have been withdrawn.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".
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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