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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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[–] solomon42069@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Why is no one blaming Microsoft? It's their non resilient OS that crashed.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 33 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Probably because it's a Crowdstrike issue, they've pushed a bad update.

[–] solomon42069@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

OK, but people aren't running Crowdstrike OS. They're running Microsoft Windows.

I think that some responsibility should lie with Microsoft - to create an OS that

  1. Recovers gracefully from third party code that bugs out
  2. Doesn't allow third party software updates to break boot

I get that there can be unforeseeable bugs, I'm a programmer of over two decades myself. But there are also steps you can take to strengthen your code, and as a Windows user it feels more like their resources are focused on random new shit no one wants instead of on the core stability and reliability of the system.

It seems to be like third party updates have a lot of control/influence over the OS and that's all well and good, but the equivalent of a "Try and Catch" is what they needed here and yet nothing seems to be in place. The OS just boot loops.

[–] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

banks wouldn't use something that black box. just trust me bro wouldn't be a good pitch

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

If you trust banks that much, I have very bad news for you.

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