Hmmm.
So, OP didnβt qualify which population they were percenting, which is a fair cop. Youβre setting the sample as βthe worldβ, and for sure those isolated hunter-gatherer tribes in central America totally didnβt hear about it!
However, βnumber of computersβ isnβt a good way to measure this. I guarantee that every traveler who was trying to fly over the past week heard about it, because when it took down the airport computers, it created a travel backlog theyβre still clearing out.
Further, a 2014 study showed that more Americans work at large firms than small ones, and these are the very institutions hit worst by CrowdStrike. When it hit my wifeβs company, it took IT until this week to restore everyoneβs computer. First they worked on critical infrastructure, then they worked to restore laptops that had been shut down; for several days, entire teams were unable to do anything. And you bet that even of youβre a self-employed plumber, youβd have heard about it when your spouse had an unscheduled vacation for several days. My wife was lucky and hadnβt restarted her computer, and was terrified to do so until she got the all-clear from corporate IT. This being Windows, that meant that every day her computer got slower and slower; I donβt know what it is about Windows that requires a reboot every couple of days to keep it from turning into a Commodore 64. Anyway, that was about 100k people around the world, and their spouses. Oh, and since you chose to include βthe worldβ population, their kids probably heard about it, too. We have to discount all the infants, though; that for sure brings the percentage down π
I agree with OP: it would be interesting to know how many adults in developed countries were completely unaware of the event. Versus how many in developing countries, even. It wasnβt a stupid question.