Up to 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by Friday's IT outage after Crowdstrike's antivirus update went awry.

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

  • slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish
    45·
    5 months ago

    Microsoft has Windows Defender, its in-house alternative to CrowdStrike, but because of the 2009 agreement made to avoid a European competition investigation, had allowed multiple security providers to install software at the kernel level.

    Lmao what

  • ladicius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    5 months ago

    If windows wasn’t so shitty then nobody would need extra software to protect their systems.

  • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
    32·
    5 months ago

    I can’t get over how absolutely awful everything and everyone involved is here.

    The terrible Windows kernel, the awful MSFT practices, the horrible engineering decisions, and the propretiary AntiVirus market that shouldn’t exist as it is an afront to everything good and beautiful in this world. People who shouldn’t be trusted with a soft cushion out of concern that they’d wreck havoc, but vested with so much real power they can bring down airports, hospitals, half of the global infrastructure to a screeching halt.

    We should be suing Bill Gates’ parents for damages their frivolous decision to bear children caused.

      • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        But do they have a scheduled weekly email with a list of tests that are known to be broken and allowed to fail in CI that then has to be manually checked against the test run report before merging? LIKE MICROSOFT DOES FOR AT LEAST ONE MISSION CRITICAL SERVICE I WORKED ON?

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    Are they cuddling up to clownstrike for some reason?

    This is entirely clownstrikes fault! If they even remotely validated their input this would have gone very differently