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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 114 points 4 months ago (28 children)

Yeah my plans of going to sleep last night were thoroughly dashed as every single windows server across every datacenter I manage between two countries all cried out at the same time lmao

[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 58 points 4 months ago (16 children)

I always wondered who even used windows server given how marginal its marketshare is. Now i know from the news.

[–] Eril 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

My current company does and I hate it so much. Who even got that idea in the first place? Linux always dominated server-side stuff, no?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, but the developers learned on Windows, so they wrote software for Windows.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

You should read the saga of when MS bought Hotmail. The work they had to do to be able to run it on Windows was incredible. It actually helped MS improve their server OS, and it still wasn't as performance when they switched over.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, Linux doesn’t now nor has it ever dominated the server space.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

In university computer science, in the states, MS server was the main server OS that they taught my class during our education.

Microsoft loses money to let the universities and students use and learn MS server for free, or at least they did at the time. This had the effect of making a lot of fresh grad developers more comfortable with using MS server, and I'm sure it led to MS server being used in cases where there were better options.

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