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Subject: Re: A meditation on the Antithesis of the VMS Ethos
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:04:12 -0400
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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