1027 / 80 = 12.8 human lifetimes or so. At my last workplace Windows XP took over 5 minutes to boot, just the correct amount of time that you couldn't really d

1027 / 80 = 12.8 human lifetimes or so. At my last workplace Windows XP took over 5 minutes to boot, just the correct amount of time that you couldn't really do any other task with it. Ubuntu took a maximum 40 seconds on the same machine. So take the 4 minute 20 second difference, every day (300 days a year let's say), times every office worker in a similar situation (less low ball it massively with 100 million), times just 5 years. 300 x 5 = 1500 days 1500 x 100 million = 150,000,000,000 ((((150000000000 / 4.333) / 60) / 24) / 365.24) / 80 = 822.8 human lifetimes. Expand it beyond the 100 million and 5 years and weep. At least a whole generation of a small country town worth of human experience extinguished, or converted into paper-shuffling and wall-staring, because of a team of programmers at MS didn't optimize. Exaggerated impact? Maybe, but it seems like there was quite a bit of headroom/low hanging fruit for others to have gotten it so fast.