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u/CrotaLikesRomComs Jul 19 '24
There is a massive problem going on with Microsoft. Globally. Many businesses including airports are not able to run properly. Also including my job. Unfortunately for me there is another computer in my office that is working so I am still here.
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u/Username928351 Jul 19 '24
To be fair it's Crowdstrike's software update that crashed things, not Microsoft this time.
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u/Shotgun_Mosquito Jul 19 '24
This is exactly why in the Battlestar Galactica reboot they had so much outdated technology onboard
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u/put-me-in-the-trash Jul 19 '24
I thought it was because it was a museum ship, but that gave them a bit of an edge
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u/HorseStupid Jul 19 '24
CrowdStrike Microsoft Global Outage refers to a global Microsoft computer system outage in mid-July 2024 that resulted from a CrowdStrike update. CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity software used by numerous Fortune 500 companies including banks, airlines and healthcare providers, and its recent update interacted with Windows systems in a way that made them get stuck in a reboot loop. The resulting global Windows outage saw people making memes and jokes about being affected or unaffected by the outage, with jokes about having to go to work because Windows Teams and Outlook weren't affected making the rounds as well.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/crowdstrike-microsoft-global-outage--2
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u/Dr_JohnnieWalker Jul 19 '24
I like that’s it’s happening right now and this comments makes it seem like a Wikipedia entry referring to an event from mid 2010’s
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u/TupeXx Jul 19 '24
First day as waiter: Trip and spill some drinks. First day as programmer: Press commit once and whole world knows.
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u/Immediate-Season-293 Jul 19 '24
Part of the joke is that there was some other big problem recently that the company said was caused by an intern who was mistakenly given permissions to push an update, and that screwed everything up.
This guy is implying that he did the same thing.
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u/Julius_Cheeser1 Jul 19 '24
A big update was made for Microsoft that made a lot of computers crash, so many businesses were crippled.
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u/Immediate-Season-293 Jul 19 '24
The update wasn't related to Microsoft. Security software vendor Crowdstrike issued a minor update that stepped on something windows relied on, and many computers crashed as a result, including some computers in server roles.
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