This appears to be the largest outage in Microsoft Windows history, with the issue affecting users globally. Many companies have been forced to suspend their services, causing widespread disruption. The impact is being felt across various sectors, from the stock market to local shops, big businesses, and small enterprises.
Though Linux and Mac OS users, as well as those still using Windows 7, are on the safe side from this issue."
But doesn’t Microsoft require those drivers to be signed these days? I would have guessed that part of the process of getting them signed would have included some testing, but maybe not or maybe the tests just weren’t thorough enough to catch whatever the problem is.
Most sysadmins are used to having to vet every update, but antivirus updates need to be applied within hours, otherwise they are innefective.
Plus, virus definition updates aren’t really something you are careful about because companies usually make virus definition files trivial enough to always be correctly applied.
This means virus definition updates are a big bug surface that has gone unnoticed until now.
I guess this goes to show that antiviruses have to be really well made pieces of software, and that you should always have some form of rollback ready.
It also reinforces that companies should test every update they push out, especially if it is to paying customers.
The question is “does microsoft test the crowd strike code?”
I doubt it, i expect crowd strike are a trusted developer, from microsoft’s point of view.
What i can say about this is windows is no longer a good option for users as the users will understand they will get rid of that.
Microsoft is no longer interested in making and selling windows rather thay have already
Captured the best possible market share so earning more revenue is no longer possible so they are tring to actually switching from a purchase and forget to saas model in that way they can earn in a monthly basis with that just like Microsoft 369 that is the main reason that day by day windows becoming worse.
This is a misguided statement, The Big picture is that Microsoft has little interest in Desktop customers. Layman, Students, Casual, Creators. The money is and has always been in Server & Enterprise consumers.
Those ATM’s, POS systems, Workstations Rollout machines with a full subscription of Microsoft Office + Visual Studio + Azure + Storage and Deployments.
Further monetizing those customers is what MS want to do. Prohibiting Group Policy features as much as possible and intergration to Azure services is their selling point now.
When you are too big to lose, how do you increase profits? Monetize the product by extending who/what the product is. . . The product used to be the Software, now it’s the software + the employee.
I’m rubbing my hands for when we see the malware that will spawn from something like Riot Games or Epic Games root kit, kernel module from their Anti-Cheat.
