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.

  • @[email protected]English
    31•4 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.

    • @Manifish_DestinyEnglish
      6•4 months ago

      I had an engineering call with crowdstrike today. They only had been running unit tests before deployment.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•4 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?