Up to 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by Friday's IT outage after Crowdstrike's antivirus update went awry.

cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/1965658

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

  • @misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7•4 months ago

    Linux has the same issue and was also affected by Crowdstrike earlier this year.

    • @KasimirDD@feddit.orgEnglish
      10•4 months ago

      I know, but someone (KP Singh, I think?) already provided a fix for this. In the end, it’s not about any system being error-free, but about how these errors are dealt with. Crowdstrike screwed up and Microsoft could have fixed this vulnerability after the Linux kernel incident. Maybe. But now pointing the finger at an uninvolved third party is just PR.