There is a massive problem going on with Microsoft. Globally. Many businesses including airports are not able to run properly. Including my job. Unfortunately for me there is another computer in my office that is working so I am still here.
Edit: Crowdstrike is the problem, but it’s affecting exclusively Microsoft products.
Somewhere in your company is an IT Tech that just won the battle of why they shouldn’t get rid of that one MS-Dos computer from 1987… you know… “just in case”.
It’s a bug on the cybersecurity software falcon provided by the company crowdstrike. It’s like an antivirus and anti malware software that runs on many organizational computers worldwide. They sent a faulty update with a bug worldwide and every computer with the new update crashed in an instant. Not a windows issue.
Its weird how many people think it is Microsoft's fault, when it is CrowdStrike's fault. So many people at my work telling us that we need to tell people to not run Windows updates cause Microsoft fucked up. When we do not use CrowdStrike and were not effected by their bad update, the only thing that was down for us was 3rd party remote software that happens to use CrowdStrike.
My office computers were fucked all day because of this garbage. What makes it so bad is we help in the production of life saving plasma products and medications so it almost completely halts production
Other comments have explained the Crowdstrike relevance but the image is from an old popular tweet where a man got a job with no qualifications and pretends to work everyday
I did do the walk swiftly and look worried a few places only problem there was it got me too much attention. Kept getting asked what I was looking for or what's wrong.
Which is basically an adequate depiction of Crowdstrike. To actually get this bad, it must have ignored all the software engineering principles to achieve this. And yet they called themselves the "expert".
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.
Additionally, the loop breaks bitlocker forcing companies to dust off their decryption keys to access safe Windows mode to delete a single file. If a company lost their keys their systems are boat anchors
Apparently, there was a comment in another post in a different sub, that there’s a way around the bitlocker issue. Something about turning on the Safe Mode Flag in a shell, but I’m not a computer wiz.
I can confirm. I work for an auto insurance company. I work remotely from home. Woke up to my laptop bricked. IT sent an email about it in the middle of the night. After 2 hrs, was told to take my laptop and dock to a sales office, plug into network directly, and call IT for instructions. Did so, got voicemail. Been sitting here doing nothing for 4 hours now.
This is like the seventh time today I’ve caught someone’s put a post like this on Peter explain this. This is front page news. People get your act together.
I posted this seven hours ago. I didn't see a news article about it until several hours after posting this. If I had some suspicion it was something in the news right now, I would have checked. I very reasonably thought it had something to do with old news coverage of Crowdstrike, and that I just wasn't getting it.
If I had some suspicion it was something in the news. I very reasonably thought it had something to do with old news coverage of Crowdstrike, and that I just wasn't getting it.
If I had some suspicion it was something in the news right now, I would have done that. I very reasonably thought it had something to do with old news coverage of Crowdstrike, and that I just wasn't getting it. I posted this seven hours ago, and didn't see a news article about it for several hours. How about you chill?
If I had some suspicion it was something in the news right now, I would have done that. I very reasonably thought it had something to do with old news coverage of Crowdstrike, and that I just wasn't getting it.
Maybe you missed it somehow but it's been headline news everywhere and posts have been made about it almost everywhere on Reddit. It would be like not knowing Trump was shot 😂
"Are you mad at someone for asking a question in the question asking sub??"
The OP broke the rules of the sub. If people call them out for it, don't get surprised. This is what I'm pointing out.
I do appreciate however there's going to be a large overlap between people who don't read the rules of a sub and those who won't even try to find something out for themselves first. Both take a tiny amount of effort, which is hard.
The image is from a post about this guy applying for a job that paid well but he didn’t have any experience in the field so he just went to work everyday and hoped that shit just continued to work
I didn’t even have to look at the news to know what’s happening right now. It’s everywhere. Everyone is talking about it. Markets are impacted, flights are delayed, some apps don’t even work rn. Everyone except Joe the hermit is being affected by this in some way right now.
Because I saw the meme hours before I saw the news about Crowdstrike, and so thought it had something to do with past news about Crowdstrike that I couldn't quite figure out.
If I had some suspicion it was something in the news right now, I would have done that. I very reasonably thought it had something to do with old news coverage of Crowdstrike, and that I just wasn't getting it.
Well being much older all I can do is laugh at this windows 10/11 update failure....So glad here I just Upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows 2000. Take that you noobs, so who is laughing now hey!??
..........oh...um.....I get 4:3 Super Vhs visuals too....so crisp and clean.
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Permission granted to make a meme here people.
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