Bill Gates Blew Up Skype
Bill Gates tells all his operating systems to download updates and restart.
As a result, a major world-wide communications company crashes for two days.
From the official Skype blog:
The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.
It’s time for Meg Whitman to boot up Bill Gates. A hard boot.
Like they couldn’t have predicted this? Someone really dropped the ball!
Hi, thanks for dropping by.
Codinghorror – interesting that your updates wanted to run during your presentation!
And the Apple link was nicely understated. Well done.
Since you’re new, and perhaps others are too. I have a mantra that is certainly well known around our house.
Bill Gates is a Prick.
There is a fix for this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000294.html
There is also another fix for it:
http://www.apple.com
I am one step away from leaving the the MS world… Mr Jobs has to simply fix my Outlook integration issues with corporate America and I’m outta here. PVH