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Re:Global Microsoft Outage by sobiolite on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:36AM (#50480751)
It should, but knowing UK gov they'll instead pay Accenture and IBM £10bn for a backup system that'll take 15 years and never get delivered.
Re:Global Microsoft Outage by Borg3 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:47AM (#50480864)
Exacly, because 10B is big enough that everyone involved can get a bit of slice from it... Corruption is astronomical these days.
Re:Global Microsoft Outage by Ungh on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:52AM (#50480915)
It's usually worse. They spend it in many £500k consultancy blocks asking how to fix something, get a report back, don't implement it and then the staff who were working on it get a position in another part of the government.