A select number of "critical servers" were powered by UPS and completely unaffected. The rest, I guess, are not critical. I've heard that this "power failure" was actually caused by an "unscheduled scheduled" power outages ... there is a consistent yearly number of days, which are reportedly chosen at random, on which brownouts are enacted. Apparently, nobody but the powers that be know when these are supposed to occur.

amazing... too bad the box wasn't labeled "GhostNet" instead.

Only one popular *desktop* OS, that is. Given that condition, your statement is indisputable. But for servers, or even workstations, that is not as much the case today as it was 10 years ago. There are now, thankfully, many more apt choices for server OSes than Windows alone, specifically Linux (many stable distributions) and even OS X. And since these index functions can be installed on many of these systems, it's an issue worthy of note for most sysadmins.