One billion reboots?

It has been estimated that the imminent Patch Tuesday event which will consist of 12 patches dealing with 22 vulnerabilities, including that long awaited Internet Explorer fix, will kick start something in the region of 900 million system reboots during the coming week. Call me sad (mmmmmphhhhhh. Ed) but ever since this figure was suggested to me, I have been singing a revised version of the John Shuttleworth ‘nerd pop’ classic, 500 Bus Stops: “One billion reboots”.