Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage

Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by gruez on Saturday July 20, 2024 @05:07PM (#41019929)

>by approval is decentralized

Translation: it's up to whoever is the sysadmin is, which probably was responsible for crowdstrike being installed in the first place. Such "approval" would have made no difference in preventing this disaster.

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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by dlahoda on Saturday July 20, 2024 @05:27PM (#41020092)

how 8.5M devices got approval to install? may they came with hard to disable windows autoupdate?

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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by gruez on Saturday July 20, 2024 @06:18PM (#41020526)

>how 8.5M devices got approval to install

What makes you think that it was installed via windows update? The driver was part of crowdstrike's EDR software, Falcon. It's installed by sysadmins on corporate devices. That's how it got on 8.5M devices. It's not something that gets auto-installed when you run windows update.

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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by dlahoda on Saturday July 20, 2024 @05:30PM (#41020128)

gpt said it could be updated by ms https://chatgpt.com/share/8eca1a08-062f-4474-9310-95444bab67...

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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by gruez on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:01PM (#41020824)

That's irrelevant when crowdstrike admitted it's caused by them.

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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by bwock on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:47AM (#41025498)

this isnt a good contribution to this site

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