WHILE LAST YEAR’S Windows 10 update that ate through users files was pretty bad PR, Microsoft can at least definitely say, hand on heart, that no convicts were accidentally released as a result.
That might seem like a low bar to clear, but it should probably be our new measure of how bad a software update is after Dutch police had to pick up the pieces of their own botched rollout.
The police ankle bands – used to track offenders on bail and under house arrests – received a software update that prevented them from communicating with department of justice control rooms.
