Microsoft has serious questions to answer after the biggest IT outage in history

Re:Microsoft has serious questions to answer after the bigge... by johnnyo on Friday July 19, 2024 @11:47AM (#41007666)

I think the idea is that CrowdStrike doesn’t run in user space.

If an Nvidia driver had bricked the machines, would that be MS fault or Nvidia fault?

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Re:Microsoft has serious questions to answer after the bigge... by flohofwoe on Friday July 19, 2024 @11:55AM (#41007751)

IME a graphics driver crash recovers just fine on Windows. The screen goes black for half a second and you're back in business without losing progress.

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Re:Microsoft has serious questions to answer after the bigge... by velcrovan on Friday July 19, 2024 @01:56PM (#41009177)

I've had NVidia drivers bluescreen Windows 10 and 11 machines within the past six months.

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Re:Microsoft has serious questions to answer after the bigge... by diffeomorphism on Friday July 19, 2024 @11:53AM (#41007732)

Why not both? I am perfectly happy to blame multiple parties, not just one.

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