Re: A meditation on the Antithesis of the VMS Ethos

On 7/21/2024 5:39 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 19:41:06 +1000, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:

As we speak, millions -- or even hundreds of millions -- of different
Windows-based computers are now stuck in a doom-loop ...

 Microsoft’s count was 8.5 million. Not that huge a number, really.
 Maybe it’s a sign that not as many people depend on Windows for such
mission-critical systems as you might expect.

The number is about as high as to be expected.
Math like:
1000 million Windows PC's & 1/2 business 1/2 private
=>
500 million business Windows PC's
500 million business Windows PC's & CrowdStrike on 1/3
=>
133 million business Windows PC's with CrowdStrike
133 million business Windows PC's with CrowdStrike & bad file available for 1.5 hours & assumption about restarts evenly distributed over 24 hours (which is not that unrealistic if looking worldwide)
=>
expected 8.3 million PC's to be impacted
:-)
Arne