Posted on 11/08/2018 9:09:54 PM PST by dayglored
It looks like you're trying to run a rail service. Do you want some help with that?
Window admins rejoice! It isnt just you that cant get Office 2010 to uninstall silently. The mighty brains behind the UK railways have had just as much trouble.
As well as the usual passenger information boards, detailing the day's cancellations and delays, Londons Victoria train station also features displays on every platform showing the state of the lines around the building.
Station staff, taking a break from stopping passengers boarding trains due to inexplicable ticket restrictions, can use the screens to get a handle on what is happening outside the terminus.
Except when an Office 365 upgrade is being deployed.
Yup. Right about now would be perfect. I wasn't looking at that LIVE TRAIN SIGNALLING INFORMATION... #fail #silentuninstall pic.twitter.com/xgiFlsvizV Rob Dyke (@robdykedotcom) November 2, 2018
Twitter user Rob D noted all the screens last week were requesting permission to go ahead and remove Microsoft Office 2010 with a dialog box obscuring some minor information like, er, the lines from platforms 13 to 19. Regular users of Victoria will know that those serve trains heading to, among others, Gatwick Airport.
Why a copy of Office is needed on a PC tasked with showing line information is anyones guess (and two Internet Explorer icons indicates there is double the fun to be had). We asked the UKs rail operator, Network Rail, if they were having some IT difficulties but have, alas, yet to receive a response.
Rail users who enjoyed spending an expected early morning hour on station platforms earlier this week due to overrunning engineering works can take comfort that perhaps it wasnt simply down to bad time management. Maybe no one had managed to click "OK" to get Excel to install. ®
I found one on the display for a gas pump in town over the summer...
LOL!! Sent the link to my oldest son. He used to be a Conrail dispatcher.
Windows has always been perfect for me, in all versions.
/s
SYSTEM HAS AN UNRECOVERABLE FAT ON: HDD001,002,003,004.
Now is a good time for You to have Tea, Crumpets and Orange Marmalade.
Pray that our Minuteman missiles are not controlled by computers running Windows 10. Would not appreciate a nuke war started by MS forced updates.
(Shirley our more modern missiles and nukes are not on win-doze)
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BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
A fun addition to the morning news, amidst all the reports of cheatin’ Democrats.
DANG!
Yah, I picked a bad time to stop smokin’ crack.
I feel bad for the IT guy who did the task deployment. He’s got to be catching all kinds of flak.
Win-10 update, right?
Someone that did software that controlled the routing of London buses said a bug once caused all buses to converge on the train station. Caused a huge jam-up.
Having had a 35 year IT Career and being a part of innovation and worked with some bright people that created some things you use every day, I am so disappointed in Windows as it set the expectation with users that problems and crashes are expected and normal. Back in our day we made things dependable.
I have no idea.
My shop decided to “upgrade” everything from Office 2010 Standard to Office 2010 Pro Plus. Mind you, they’re hard into the migration process to Win-10 but due to so many software incompatibility issues that ain’t going so well.
So they scripted a deployment of Pro Plus - and managed to break 30% of existing installs in the process. Workers are left with email clients that won’t connect, missing programs, or the entire Office suite gone.
It’s been a laff riot.
As an IT person I’ve had this happen when sending out a mass install/uninstall in which I thought was silent... because I tested it 10 times previously.
Awesome! /s
One almost might think it wasn't actually a bug...
WAAD - Windows As A Disservice
Would you like....to play...a game?
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