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.

It may also be worth noting that a lot of the problems was caused
by the issue on "individually non-critical but group critical PC's".
Meaning that you may have 1000 desktop PC's running some
business GUI - if 1 or 10 or even 25 of these goes down it has
very little impact, but if all 1000 are down (because they had
Crowdstrike and they were all rebooted in the bad 1.5 hour window)
then it has a huge impact.
Arne