Windows Blue screen of death

I think it stems though, from the frustration that Microsoft has been taking a lot of the heat and blame from users and the media alike. It’s pretty damaging to them. But it’s the EC regulations which ultimately opened the door to crowdstrike being able to break devices in this way.

I don’t know if it’s that this never happens with others (it almost certainly does) or if we just notice it less because of their smaller market share when things go wrong. But the reality with those regulations is that it could happen with any of them. Software update blunders like this err closer to being an eventuality rather than outright preventable. They’re more common than people think with software like this integrating so deep into the system.

On the Mac side, for instance, Little Snitch (which is well loved in contrast to Crowdstrike) has had a few updates over the years which have caused similar problems. Taking machines offline, requiring local access to update permissions and get them remotely accessible again. Yet no one will have ever heard about it unless you were an impacted customer.

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