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CrowdStrike Says Global IT Outage Impacting Windows PCs, But Mac and Linux Hosts Not Affected
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Which is why the next war will be won, not with bullets and bombs, but bits and bytes.
Our reliance on interconnected tech has brought us to this.
There’s a reason why most of the corporate world uses Microsoft and Linux 😂
I think it’s because it’s an Apple forum and you will find many on here regard Mac OS to be superior in every way…
But it’s a consumer OS, they forget that.
Windows and Linux are more corporate focused. The backbone of many of the worlds IT systems and that’s for a reason.
Misinformation… because windows was mentioned everyone assumed it was a windows specific update and Microsoft’s fault. It was a third party software that caused this chaos.
No commercial plane runs any “operating systems“ we use on a daily basis. The flight computer is designed separately from normal computers.
Even if All airports IT systems are down, the alternative airport information won’t change, nor those alternatives magically disappear. Updates issued prior to IT system breakdown can still work, mostly. It’s the main issue of figuring out which passenger is which, whether check-in is allowed or not, if ticket fares are paid or not, among other things.
Even if it is not an automatic windows update, it is still a software update. VPN all pos machines to a central server and cut off network should VPN is down. I am sure there are ways to isolate those machines from the rest of the internet. It’s more of a matter of whether they want to go that far or not.
I think we can all agree that if the world was running on Mac OS, there would never be any issues at all and everyone would be frustrated with window management 😂
Exactly. I blame Microsoft first and foremost, then Crowdstrike.
Work in IT for a hospital, got called in at 3am for this. Fun times.
You are quoting me, as I was quoting to an article. Dunno why you are replying to this and in that manner. I never mentioned anything to warrant such a reply from you.
Crowdstrike is not part of windows and is not distributed via windows or widows update. It's it's own solution.
I guess that’s the default position of a subset of Apple devotees.
According to our IT, it did not. No updates were applied to any of our systems overnight and they are pushed manually, by IT, after testing.
Do you read articles? Or do you have an autopilot "blame Microsoft" because it is cool?
I have no idea what you’re on about. Crowdstrike is a government policy to prevent mass civil protest and unrest. I doubt it would be distributed by windows update but the police and military.
This. All of you saying "it's not Microsofts fault!" are missing the point entirely.
If Windows allows kernal access to 3rd party apps that have the ability to shut down your entire system with a single automated update, that's on Microsoft. Period. Full stop.
Others have mentioned that Crowdstrike works on Macs too; but can Crowdstrike access the core of the Mac OS in this same way? I can't ever remember a 3rd party app that brought down my entire Mac.
...and for those of you saying that the DMA and the EU can't have this affect...this is at the heart of why I oppose the DMA. The EU is putting their fingers into the core of OS operations.
Have you read the article? Have you seen Microsoft didn't push any update? Or you are too in autopilot mode "blame Microsoft"?
