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 p

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.