Microsoft Windows screws up Seattle’s New Year fireworks display

“After a computer failure stuffed up Seattle’s New Year fireworks show, bloggers have been quick to blame Microsoft,” Nick Farrell reports for The Register.

“The show at the Seattle Center was supposed to ring in the New Year but the computer running the display did not work,” Farrell reports.

According to reports, workers had to run the show manually.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Linux Guy And Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]

MacDailyNews Take: Par for the course or, as “Linux Guy And Mac Prodigal Son” wrote in his email, “home field disadvantage.” Maybe this year, Microsoft will start making a vacuum cleaner, so they can finally brag about making something that doesn’t suck.