Exactly this. As I was reading the article I hoped to find this exact point in the HN comments.
The fault lies in the bad software. It could have been the indexing service, online defrag, automatic updates, or any of the other various background processes windows runs.
If it is critical software, it should be designed in a way to not fail when something non-critical malfunctions, and even the critical pieces should be built with redundancy.
The fault lies in the bad software. It could have been the indexing service, online defrag, automatic updates, or any of the other various background processes windows runs.
If it is critical software, it should be designed in a way to not fail when something non-critical malfunctions, and even the critical pieces should be built with redundancy.