Could be anything like implementation of new software, lost of data, access or totaly crash down of computer systems
2006-11-11 02:29:24 · 3 answers · asked by Leo 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Microsoft ! They are regularly the cause of all computer related problems !
Other than that I would say the millennium bug - nothing ever happened. Then there are the little viruses such as Nimda and Blaster - they knocked companies out for a week or so.
I work on an IT help desk and I find it amazing at how people panic as soon as their PC breaks !
I had a woman call me at the beginning of this week demanding I drive to the London office (I'm based in Preston - NW England so about a 7 hr car journey) becasue she couldn't type a letter to somebody.
I explained that she would have to wait until next week for a replacement and to get a pen and piece of paper and revert to the old skool method of "Writing a letter".
She then demanded to speak to my manager as she "hadn't heard anything so absurd in her life" and that "people don't write letters these days"
Just wait - give it 10-20 years and EMP (electro magnetic pulse) will be the next weapon of choice for terrorists - just set of an EMP device and for miles around everything from toasters to PCs will be rendered useless.
Including any radar systems used to track such devices - any form of communication used by the military, the jets that are scrambled in extreme cases !
People are far to reliant on technology these days !
Just like NASA spending millions of dollars producing a pen that can write in zero gravity to be used by their astronauts in space as there were problems getting ink flowing without gravity !!!
- the Russians used a pencil !
2006-11-11 02:51:20 · answer #1 · answered by the thinker 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
agree, the millenium bug was quite good fun to watch.
but wait few weeks and we'll see the UK NHS plunder in one of the "biggest IT disaster in History". trying to put 50million patient record online for Gps and hospitals, deciding not to use ready made software.
"It is the largest civilian computer project in the world, designed to transform the NHS into a beacon of electronic wizardry. But could it instead become the mother of all IT disasters while the country’s hospitals remain desperate for cash?"
and IBM letting B Gates keep all the code they paid for.
2006-11-11 03:23:24 · answer #2 · answered by luca m 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Millennium Bug, millions spent, I.T. hype blew it out of all proportions, and nothing happened.
The I.T. industry is still recovering, because no one will ever believe any warnings again.
2006-11-11 02:37:45 · answer #3 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋