 from abc news tech trends eight and a half million that's how many computers were out of commission at the peak of last week's outage that amounts to less than one percent of all windows devices according to a blog post from microsoft but author and tech journalist chris stokel walker says the incident underscores how reliant many industries have become on certain technologies and the risks that brings with it we imbue these tools with kind of superhuman qualities and forget actually there are humans in the loop and humans do make errors