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Ash_Crow

@HugeGameArtGD @szbalint @hanno it's still caused by a third party software. Had they broken their Linux updater instead of the Windows one, we would get kernel error screens.

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LinuxUserGD

@Ash_Crow @szbalint @hanno
The title is misleading, though Cloudstrike is mentioned later in the article.
"The outage has been blamed on a security update from US group CrowdStrike, which caused a problem with Microsoft’s Windows."
archive.is/20240719080823/http

MarvinFreeman

@Ash_Crow @HugeGameArtGD @szbalint @hanno Serious question: Why is #cloudstrike deployed almost everywhere with windows? Is it pushed by MS? Or recommended? Or packaged with MS products?

Ash_Crow

@horse @MarvinFreeman @HugeGameArtGD @szbalint @hanno It's also not deployed everywhere. It seems like it is used by "nearly 60% of Fortune 500 companies and more than half of the Fortune 1,000 ", per en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Cro

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@MarvinFreeman @Ash_Crow @HugeGameArtGD @szbalint @hanno It's not by any means deployed everywhere with WIndows. They have almost no market impact in the consumer space, for example, which is why millions of people turned on their home Windows machines today and had no problems at all.

But in the business world, there are only a few companies offering that sort of product. So let's say they have a (guessing) 10% market share -- that means 10% of businesses will be hit by the problem. That's a lot of high-visibility outages.

@MarvinFreeman @Ash_Crow @HugeGameArtGD @szbalint @hanno It's not by any means deployed everywhere with WIndows. They have almost no market impact in the consumer space, for example, which is why millions of people turned on their home Windows machines today and had no problems at all.

But in the business world, there are only a few companies offering that sort of product. So let's say they have a (guessing) 10% market share -- that means 10% of businesses will be hit by the problem. That's a lot...

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