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I think it will. MS has published a number that it was 8.5 million machines, which I don't believe, bur seeing the effort that's gone into the response even at my own relatively mid sized org, there are super simple questions like how the heck do we even get to these devices when hald the crew work remote.

The response is and always will be - how much will this cost. We now have the opposing figure, how much will this cost if we don't do it.



Do you believe it was more or less than 8.5 million machines?


I suspect more.


I'm sure it was more, MS's crash statistics come from a long pipeline of WER reports. I know for a fact that some organizations disable WER or even blackhole it along with other diagnostics.


Wasn’t the 8.5 million an estimation? I thought microsoft took the telemetry they got and then adjusted it based on the estimated ratio of machines where telemetry is disabled.




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