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What Happened When Delta Went Down Yesterday?

posted by takyon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @03:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the you're-grounded dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Cringley speculates like hell:

Delta Airlines last night suffered a major power outage at its data center in Atlanta that led to a systemwide shutdown of its computer network, stranding airliners and canceling flights all over the world. You already know that. What you may not know, however, is the likely role in the crisis of IT outsourcing and offshoring.

Do any Soylentils have inside/better information?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:30PM (#385826)

    What would be hilarious is if that was still the cause of the downtime. For instance, what if the computer had scheduled their upgrade time for August, after the free period passed. Then when the system tried to update, after downloading everything and rebooting into Windows 10, it refused to validate because it was no longer in the free period and required payment. :D

    Yeah, I doubt that was the cause too. I'm sure we would have definitely heard about it by now if that was the case. XD

  • (Score: 2) by darnkitten on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:48PM

    by darnkitten (1912) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:48PM (#386317)

    Out here in the country, not just the Win10 upgrade, but the updates bork people's systems--about a third of the Win10 computers I'm aware of have had some sort of major failure during the planned updates, resulting in anything from loss of access to the Edge browser, being unable to use (or even find) the search function, up to complete failure requiring entire system reinstall.

    As far as I can tell, (aside from normal bugs in the updates), the update processes were interrupted by either the power or the network failures that commonly occur around here.

    Also, on one lady's notebook, Windows tried to use her cell data plan to download the update, even though it theoretically wasn't allowed to do so, and crashed when it ran up against her data cap.

    A good portion of the local computer guy's business is fixing bad Win10 upgrades/updates or rolling back to more robust versions of Windows.

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    Microsoft apparently didn't realize that some people operate their computers under rural conditions...