Microsoft server crash leaves 800 planes with no contact with ATC

It's worth noting that this article is from September 2004.

49.7 days is 2^32 milliseconds. Although this used to cause issues with Win98, they claimed to be using 2000, so it was probably an application-related bug rather than anything Microsoft should be blamed for.

GetTickCount() wraparound bug.

Sounds more like a fault of the application than the OS. M$ in the title seems to be there for page views

So this is essentially human error because someone failed to restart the server. The same thing would have happened if it was running Linux, Unix, etc.

Desmond?

This is both inaccurate and out-dated.