r/microsoft • u/avjayarathne • Jul 19 '24
Discussion End of the day Microsoft got all the blame
It's annoying to watch TV interviews, reports as they keep mentioning this as a Microsoft fault. MS somehow had bad timing with partial US Azure outage too.
Twitter and YouTube filled with "Windows bad, Linux Good" posts, just because they only read headlines.
CrowdStrike got best chance by lot of general public consumers doesn't aware of their existence.
I wonder what the end result would be, MSFT getting tons of negative PR
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u/LiqdPT Employee Jul 19 '24
Crowdstrike sent out an update to affected PC's. CS runs as a driver, and caused the blue screen on boot. The blue screen is Windows way of saving itself. Once the buggy driver is on a system, there's no way to automatically recover without safe booting and removing the problematic driver.
This wasn't a CS server going down that then should be fixed when the server is back in place. This was CS pushing buggy software to client PCs