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by machine_coffee 703 days ago
At last an explanation that makes a bit of sense to me.

>Hopefully they own up to this, and explain what they're going to do to prevent another global-impact process failure

They probably needn't bother, every competent sysadmin from Greenland to New Zealand is probably disabling the autoupdate feature right now, firewalling it off and hatching a plan to get the product off their server estate ASAP.

Marketing budgets for competing product are going to get a bump this quarter probably.