technology - "computers"

At least one university liberal enough to accept the deeply flawed and mostly rejected Vista OS is recommending faculty and students stay away from SP1. 'University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and students not to upgrade their computers to the new service pack for Microsoft's windows Vista operating system. The school's Information Systems & Computing department said it will support Vista SP1 on new systems where it's pre-installed, but added that it 'strongly recommends that all other users adopt a 'wait and see' attitude,' according to a newly published department bulletin.' And CIO magazine doesn't quite go so far as to call on microsoft to throw away Vista, but it does ask its readers to weigh in on that topic. of this story at Slashdot.

wanderindiana brings us an update on the White House missing emails mess, which we have discussed before. It seems the hard drives of many White House computers are gone beyond the possibility of recovery. Is it unusual in your experience for, say, a corporate IT department to destroy hard drives by policy? 'Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005. The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an e-mail recovery plan that the court proposed.' of this story at Slashdot.