What caused the CrowdStrike-Microsoft global tech outage?

The "blue screen of death" is a standard term for it and has been for decades. This is a situation where pretty much all their customers are large corporations. Small users didn't get the problem because they don't use the service. Microsoft products are widely used and when they have a problem it becomes known fast. IT admins also know not to implement Windows updates right away but wait a bit in case a problem shows up.

Newscaster at 1:34 "I just have to ask if it's normal to roll out everything all at once." SRE's: "one of us, one of us"

Devs and QA's: we recommend phased deployment with performance testing and regressijn testing Execs: thats really expensive Devs and QA's: we told you Execs: surprised pikachu face

The poor underpaid developer and tester will get fired. while their big bosses who imposed impossible deadlines will get away with massive bonuses. How world of IT works

I should try to use Linux. I heard its more advanced and much much better now.

Microsoft and other big companies need to be held accountable. Big money fine's for companies who put out bad updates! This could have been caught if double checked. Test before release. If one has to go back to the old format that should always be possible. Many computers won't recover from this mistake.

Justin Cappos appearing as if he'd been contacted a moment earlier to provide his analysis, had just gotten out of bed, didn't have time to shave....

From now onwards, Microsoft has to literally beg everyone to intake new updates, even if it’s a very very important security fix.

I work IT for a large software dev operation in Australia... PCs started to blue screen at around 3pm... by 4pm every single PC was down in every office in Australia... within 1 hour our team determined it was crowdstrike. Although still silence from Crowdstrike... our 5 man team war roomed and found and tested the fix... rolled out the fix to every 500+ Windows PC, window servers and virtual windows machine... the worst part was fix could not be applied remotely as all workstations was bricked... we had to 1 PC at a time physically in person to apply the our fix... while ours phones was going nuts with people going nuts cuz they can't work... i walked out of office at 12am... no food no breaks as a broken IT Support.... thanks to crowdstrike...

US company world security threat, why is no one asking this question? 🤔

how do we actually know this wasn't a cyber attack? we don't.

Wth.im glad i don't own a Dell no more.

Whadya wanna bet someone forgot the ";" ?

That cut down on air pollution

Incompetence.

My flight got cancelled yesterday due to this incident!

go back to using mainframes. They were so reliable

test run for what's coming

Some people has reported ..... It's the official term

Fix it