Microsoft Outage: What We Know So Far

This is CrowdStrike, not Microsoft. CrowdStrike runs a new Generative AI Based cybersecurity system called Falcon. This is the first Global incident of how AI can and will completely control us.

Skynet is aware now 💀

Crowdstrike is the kind of bloated monolithic software that is a magnet for BSODs. On Linux, software like this is split into multiple dependencies and packages that are installed separately, but all at once. Linux should be the operating system for government and enterprise.

I got a feeling that Apple stock go up and the Microsoft stock would go down

Perhaps there is an update to global government tech centers?

Oh, please. The software update wasn't tested fully before release, and that's due to CrowdStrike's incompetence.

And dhis is the problem of a MONOPOLY.

Govs and enterprises should just move to unix systems. Ive managed unix systems that have been up and running longer than teenagers Ive met. Windows needs reboots and cold patches, what a pain. Unix is real reliability. Windows cant even handle file names longer than 260 letters. Folders named aux or tmp. Or open 2 Office documents of the same name from different folders. Why.

Did Musk buy Crowdstrike?

Notice how this happened right after MS fired its entire DEI staff. Funny how it's just the latest of several companies having strangely similar problems.

Its OK guys. Just put all your faith in these systems and all of your personal data online. Nothing can go wrong.

Linux are us. Never seen a blue screen that wasn't Arch wallpaper.

So this doesn’t affect Apple users

Okay

What, strikes me is the light-hearted mood...actually, that is encouraging....

The expert is not very expert.... only systems that run CrowdStrike Falcon were affected. There are plenty of MicroSoft systems that don't run CrowdStrike Falcon and so were unaffected. Also, there are many non MicroSoft systems out there - which were not affected. Thus, we are not reliant on one system. However, that said, there does appear to be many systems running CrowdStrike Falcon... my company has only recently moved over to it - we used to have Kaspersky but, well, you know....

Ridiculous to claim that sometimes we make a mistake and laugh. Test fixes before you roll out live and enable roll back. Just very poor engineering practices. We could deal with this stuff in the 70s and 80s for crying out loud.

Now they have to deal with what their clients have to deal with in our world with updates with no support

in times gone by we tested things every which way before going live - by the 1990's companies were starting to look for quick fixes and fast results - it became the norm to release knowing full well testing had not been comprehensive and bugs were in existence (just think of the post office and fujitsu with the horizon scandal) - and the concept of documenting systems had started to disappear long before that - many companies had no documentation at all, let alone not knowing they had bugs in their paid for systems...............

Cash is king 👑