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RSS bugs in newsMicrosoft UK MD blames Win2000 bugs on rivals
News Neil Holloway, Microsoft's UK MD, has admitted that Windows 2000 does contain some defects. In an interview with Silicon.com, Holloway said problems were bound to arise when customers used Windows with software from multiple vendors. [16 Mar 2000]
Planet Online throws its weight behind Win2000
News We are working with Microsoft in ironing out the bugs and defects - we are very pleased to be the first company in the UK to install Windows 2000. ISP Planet Online has fully endorsed Windows 2000 (Win2000) and will be... [17 Feb 2000]
Industry adopts 'wait and see' attitude to Windows 2000
News To be honest, unless I require any of the facilities specifically within Windows 2000, I would wait and let others take on the early bugs. Microsoft has admitted there are around 63,000 defects in Win2000, of which up to... [16 Feb 2000]
UK Probation Service forced to rebuild computer systems
News Representatives of probation workers say the front-end of the system is causing all the problems - being impossible to navigate, slow to use and riddled with bugs. The probation service may be about to scrap its... [27 Sep 1999]
Opinion divided over Windows 2000
News Even David Taylor, chairman of IT directors' group, Certus, believes the first version would be "full of bugs". Silicon.com viewers see the rollout of Windows 2000 on their corporate systems as inevitable, but most say... [18 Jun 1999]
Zoo harvests Microsoft's money to secure mouse's future
News She also pointed out that the fee isn't just about keeping the mouse in flies or bugs. Microsoft has thrown its corporate weight behind a mouse in a massive sponsorship deal with London Zoo. The software giant secured... [22 Mar 1999]
Blue Peter sounds bug alert
News BBC children's programme, Blue Peter has issued a stark warning on the dangers of computer bugs. Not faulty software this time, but microscopic bacteria which use dirty keyboards as a breeding ground. [21 Jan 1999]
BugNet slams "abysmal" software vendors
News Microsoft's Office product manager, Jonathan Hulse, said he couldn't understand how the organisation arrived at these figures, as he believes the number of bugs in Microsoft software is going down. BugNet - the software... [12 Jan 1999]
Sun finally launches next-generation JDK
News JDK 1.2 was originally scheduled to launch in summer 1998, but bugs found during final work on the product meant the date slipped twice. Sun Microsystems yesterday finally unveiled the long awaited upgrade to its Java... [08 Dec 1998]
Microsoft's decade in court: A brief history
News He also claims Microsoft built bugs into its operating systems which prevented Apple's multimedia QuickTime software from working properly. June US Federal Trade Commission launches investigation into possible collusion... [23 Nov 1998]
Windows 98 flaw lets in hackers
News Terry Ernest-Jones, senior analyst at IDC, said: "Windows 98 has already had bugs in it. A flaw in Windows 98 can allow hackers to see files on PC hard disks, according to US reports. The reports claim files that are not... [28 Aug 1998]
Xeon chip suffers further delays
News None of the bugs have caused corruption of data. A second flaw has been found in Intel's Xeon processor chip, causing shipments to be postponed by a further ten days. The release of the high-end workstation and server... [24 Jul 1998]
Inquiry to search for Hong Kong airport bugs
News An independent inquiry is to be set up to discover the cause of the continuing problems at Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok airport. Systems faults are still dogging the freight-handling system and all imports and exports have been stopped... [10 Jul 1998]
Hong Kong airport systems grind to a halt
News Computer bugs have brought Hong Kong's airport cargo handling system to its knees. The bugs are in the cargo IT systems and baggage handling operations. The $20bn (£12.2bn) airport was only opened on... [09 Jul 1998]
BugNet challenges Microsoft over Office 95 security hole
News The US-based authority on bugs and fixes says Excel, PowerPoint and Word have an error which allows important information normally hidden from view - such as passwords - to be revealed by simply opening files in a text... [03 Jul 1998]
