Tory Covid track and trace system used Excel columns to store data, crashed

Even if it was Excel, I wonder how many of those people crying for Dido Harding to be sacked would have done better. We're regularly sharing gigabytes of data over the internet all the time, and Excel still cannot deal with not-even-that-big data? What is a non-technical person supposed to do?

Unbelievable, they reached the maximum number of columns on a spreadsheet (&gt;16k) which caused the issues.<p>I&#x27;m all for using what works in software, but this was obviously not well planned or designed.

The budget for UK Test and Trace is £10 billion.<p>Incompetent is too kind a word for it.