CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

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Come on, it was right in their name. CrowdStrike. They were threatening us all this time.
I wish my Windows work machine wouldn’t boot. Everything worked fine for us. :-(
Is there a good eli5 on what crowdstrike is, why it is so massively used, why it seems to be so heavily associated with Microsoft and what the hell happened?
~~cloudstrike~~ crowdstrike should be sued into hell
Lol, they only bricked specific machines running their product. Everyone else was fine.

This was a business problem, not a user problem.
As a career QA, i just do not understand how this got through? Do they not use their own software? Do they not have a UAT program?

Heads will roll for this
They make software for both of them also though, IMO they're at fault for sure but so should be Microsoft for making a trash operating system.
What's the criteria for a Windows machine to be affected? I use Windows but haven't had any issues today.
Can an OS be bricked?:

A brick (or bricked device) is a mobile device, game console, router, computer or other electronic device that is no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage.[1] The term analogizes the device to a brick's modern technological usefulness.[2]

Edit: you may click the tiny down arrow if you think it can't. ;)
CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
They're not wrong.
Oh so its not windows only
on twitter?!?

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