London Stock Exchange

Microsoft: Get the Facts on the London Stock Exchange:
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx

Well, a few months ago the LSE was sending out incorrect data. Trading data was wrong. The graphs on the BBC were showing random static instead of value data.

Now it's completely fell apart, on possibly one of the most important trading days of the year (bye bye another big bank):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7603981.stm

Ah, lovely, somebody has a grab of one of the MS adverts on the LSE:
http://tipotheday.com/2008/09/08/microsofts-foot-in-mouth-london-stock-e...

Microsoft pushing f**king reliability... Jesus... I changed my job recently and a big thing is not being woken at 3am whenever Microsoft deliberately cause a failure on an Server 2003 machine (aka enforced Windows updates reboot).
Or the mornings after a MS update is pushed out to client machines and two dozen of our customers lose their email or file store or whatever MS have f**ked up that time.
Still, it ensures the client is more willing to pay an extra couple of grand for the support contract to keep their machines running (or at least, running most of the time). MS at least cause movement of money.

Now I work with Linux, BSD and Mac. So much happier.