What is she referring to when she says 208 days in the parenthesized paragraph? (After the 2nd paragraph.)
The 49.7 day bug: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/216641
Apparently it's caused by uptime being stored in a 32-bit integer which simply overflows at that point in time
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/anthonyv/...