Microsoft Not Ready for Mission Critical Applications

An interesting tidbit was on Slashdot that you will not see in the popular press:

The London Stock Exchange is abandoning its much touted windows software:

From ComputerWorld:

"Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE (London Stock Exchange)'s Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day. While the LSE denied that the collapse was TradElect's fault, they also refused to explain what the problem really wa. Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect."

The article raises an interesting question: "I can only wonder how many other Windows enterprise software failures are kept hidden away within IT departments by companies unwilling to reveal just how foolish their decisions to rely on archaic, cranky Windows software solutions have proven to be."

So I pose the question to you: Know of any other examples?

I myself can think of a few.

Anyone thinking of Microsoft for Mission Critical applications should learn from this. But sadly probably wont even know about it.

Tìoraidh!