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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is
 Worth Nothing
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 09:48:23 -0500
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On 1/4/25 8:06 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On 3 Jan 2025 10:18:16 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2 Jan 2025 18:21:11 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 23:59:53 -0500, Paul wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> People here have also achieved that (no updates) by breaking stuff
>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Microsoft itself has now come up with an update that does this,
>>>>>> too--kills the ability to receive further updates. As I mentioned in
>>>>>> the posting that started this thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sigh! It's *not* "an update [which] kills the ability to receive
>>>>> further updates". It's a corner case ...
>>>>
>>>> Which only started happening after a particular update.
>>>
>>> ... the risk of getting the problem existed only for a very short time
>>> and only in very uncommon scenarios.
> 
> ['Convenient' silent snips duly noted.]
> 
>> Only enough to affect say, a million people, perhaps ... ?
> 
>    I would say much, much fewer, thousands, if that many.
> 
> But you, nor I, nor anyone else, are to know, especially not the
> uninformed author of your 'alarming' reference.

A classical strategy of alarmist trolling is to toss out a seemingly 
huge number, but avoid context.  Here, the number is one (1) million, 
but the unmentioned context is out of 1.6 billion MS-Windows users.


>> Hardly worth worrying about, really ...
> 
>    Exactly. Glad you finally see the light!

Precisely, for even if its ~1M, as a percentage of the 1.6B user bas, 
its 1 out of 1600 users = 0.06% - which means ~99.94% were unaffected.


-hh