I mean anyone who didn’t use crowdstrike was fine.
I think it would have been a more interesting comparison if windows itself shipped a broken update to everyone which would show the OS dependency of every country.
That’s not a USA vs China thing, I work in enterprise cloud, we use Linux.
Can/do all your coworkers use git? Even the secretary and janitor?
Does everyone at your company use photoshop?
I worked in sales for a Fortune 500 tech equipment and software manufacturer. When a customer had a serious outage with a single piece of our equipment it would cause them to stop and reevaluate their purchasing plans and dependence on my company.
IMO every government and business out there is going to be looking at this at every level and IT departments will be tasked to significantly reduce their reliance on Microsoft products. It will take years to actually happen, but I think Microsoft sales are going to take a serious, long term, and well-deserved hit.
The problem is Crowdstrike, not Microsoft.
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.
Darwin enters the conversation, “Ah chem!”
(raises finger) (lowers finger) (moves onto a species that can configure their own network and printer)
Beyond China. This incident reminded of a post by WineHQ on the danger of software monoculture.
China takes alot of crap from Western MSM. But the accusation that it suacks at IT, so much, would consider using WindowsOS is a low blow
Whenever see a Windows box i say, grandma gets a smartphone. Regardless who i’m talking to. Believe it!
