All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.
Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.
Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…
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AFAICT Microsoft is busy placing ads on everything and screen logging user activity instead of making a resilient foundation.
For contrast: I’ve been running Fedora Atomic. I’m sure it is possible to add some kernel mod that completely breaks the system. But if there was a crash on boot, in most situations, I’d be able to roll back to the last working version of everything.
It’s not just Windows, it’s affecting services that people that primarily use other OS’s rely on, like Outlook or Federated login.
In these situations, blame isn’t a thing, because everyone knows that a LSE can happen to anyone at any time. The second you start to throw stones, people will throw them back when something inevitably goes wrong.
While I do fundamentally agree with you, and believe that the correct outcome should be “how do we improve things so that this never happens again”, it’s hard to attach blame to Microsoft when they’re the ones that have to triage and ensure that communication is met.
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banks wouldn’t use something that black box. just trust me bro wouldn’t be a good pitch
If you trust banks that much, I have very bad news for you.