I thnk that you vastly over estimate just how many computers and people were affected.
Microsoft estimates that 8.5 million computers were hit.
The computers hit were in the vast majority enterprise computers and mostly in the “Western World”.
In 2022, in millions, Lenovo shipped 68 million computers, HP 55.3, Dell 49.7, Apple 28.6, Asus 20.6, Acer 18.7, the rest around 70.1, that’s 286.2 million new computers shipped in 2022 alone.
In case you think that includes phones, nope, Samsung alone shipped 260.9 million mobile devices.
There are over 8 billion people on Earth. Most of them have never heard of CrowdStrike and never will.
I’m an ICT professional with 40 years experience and I’d never heard of them and I’d be surprised if they continue to exist for very much longer, all but guaranteeing that the name will become a footnote in history.
You’re taking showerthoughts way too literally. It’s an exaggeration. The number didn’t “reverse” but it definitely multiplied. Businesses were impacted and who works for businesses? People who probably never heard of cloudstrike until it shut them down. It grounded flights and every person in an airport since then have probably heard the name. Anyone with a news app on their phone probably got a notification and know the company now. The number has drastically increased and that’s the point, not that it specifically “reversed.”
Not only is this showerthoughts, as you pointed out, but the person posting never provided numbers for those that were previously aware of crowdstrike. Any attempt to do so by those responding takes the statement beyond it’s intention.
At least in the western world I think it’s possible. A lot of people I know who don’t know much of anything about computers before this now know of Crowdstrike, although they don’t know any specifics.
I’m still not sure what they do, though. The first articles I read made me think it was anti-malware for endpoint computers but some later comments made it sound like corporate spyware to track employee productivity. Maybe both?