no only the risk of not using MS products!
On 21/7/24 11:55, David wrote:
On 20/7/24 16:22, Stephen Loosley wrote:
Microsoft suggests turning it off and on again 15 times ..
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/as-the-world-wakes-up-to-a-digital-pandemic-microsoft-suggests-turning-it-off-and-on-again-15-times
/Scientific American/ have republished an informative article on this problem
at
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worldwide-tech-outage-started-with-defective-crowdstrike-update-to-microsoft/
with permission of /The Conversation/ where it originally appeared.
I suggest a much more serious systemic & strategic question concerns how a
large part of the developed world was brought to a confused standstill by a shared
single point of failure. No doubt national security departments all over the world
are considering the question.
Haven't Microsoft considered the possibility of such an event?
The UEFI boot system which has replaced BIOS in most Linux systems backs up pre-
and post-update images before & after any update, so a known good image can be
booted immediately there's a problem.
_David Lochrin_
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