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[–] peg 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The problem is Crowdstrike, not Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Makes not the least bit of difference: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/the-microsoftcrowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization

Literally hundreds of millions of people around the world have seen the Microsoft BSODs that resulted from this fuck up. Millions of people have had their lives disrupted. The vast majority of those will blame Microsoft. Executive boards and IT groups may know better but it won't matter all that much - they will be aggressively looking to reduce their exposure to Microsoft's near monopoly anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Darwin enters the conversation, "Ah chem!"

(raises finger) (lowers finger) (moves onto a species that can configure their own network and printer)