Posts by andy 55

Comet 'sold 94,000 pirate Windows CDs', claims Microsoft

A repeat of history ?

This sounds very much like the court case Microsoft won against now failed PC manufacturer Electro-wide / Atlantic Computers in the mid-90's.

Electro-wide pre-loaded Windows 95/98 on systems without giving the backup disks or licence, claiming Microsoft don't own the copyright of the software.

Generators and UPS fail in London datacentre outage

fasthosts

Not a big Fasthosts fan myself, but when Gloucester got flooded a few years ago and lost electricity the datacentre backup systems did kick in and work whilst under water.