I think we can defederate that company’s name from our personal vocabulary instances.

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    It wasn’t Windows, as someone else already explained, but yeah general media spread misinformation as usual when it comes to technology.

    I work in IT and I was there, it was a serious problem that, if not fixed, would have indeed ended up in worldwide disaster, but we knew exactly what it was many years earlier, and exactly how to fix it, and we did so nothing actually happened obviously.

    Media spread fear for nothing, instead of accurately reporting the situation and all the hark work IT people were doing all over the world to make sure everything would be fine.

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      In a way, the media hype was not completely bad. It helped ensuring there was budget to fix all those systems.