Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
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Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#2It was inevitable that something like this would happen sooner or later, either through security complacency or sheer bad luck. We were just fortunate it only happened to Windows.
Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#3>In a blog post Saturday, Microsoft estimated that the update affected 8.5 million devices, which amounts to less than 1 percent of computers running Windows
Cute, but the 1% were the systems that matter most, who cares if people could still watch LOL Cat Videos at home.
No one I know who works at a company using a Windows system was unaffected.
Actually wrong, 1 person was fine, he got a brand new PC the day before, but it had no corporate mandated "security items" (per the help desk), so he could work. He was still able to connect to the corporate intranet.
Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#4Do some of these news agencies own Crowdstrike stock? How can you blame Windows here? For simply allowing an application that can crash the OS?
I truly don't understand the angle here, besides ignorance.
Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#5It was inevitable that something like this would happen sooner or later, either through security complacency or sheer bad luck. We were just fortunate it only happened to Windows.
They already managed to bork Linux systems a couple of months ago, but then again all the services that went down, never heard of Year of Linux Desktop.
Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#6It seems baffling that Microsoft is getting heat for this. They didn't cause the issue, a third party vendor's software did. Even if you were trying to make an argument of "if we had more diversity it wouldn't be as bad", shouldn't you be focusing on the EDR vendors rather than the OS vendor?
Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#7Many in this industry have been saying this for a while now.
"I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you on the ass."
Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#8It seems baffling that Microsoft is getting heat for this. They didn't cause the issue, a third party vendor's software did. Even if you were trying to make an argument of "if we had more diversity it wouldn't be as bad", shouldn't you be focusing on the EDR vendors rather than the OS vendor?
is not it the case that kernel drivers are signed and approved by microsoft?
Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#9Do some of these news agencies own Crowdstrike stock? How can you blame Windows here? For simply allowing an application that can crash the OS? I truly don't understand the angle here, besides ignorance.
not only allowing, but approving? they signed driver, right?
linux also allows, by approval is decentralized
Re: Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
#10It seems baffling that Microsoft is getting heat for this. They didn't cause the issue, a third party vendor's software did. Even if you were trying to make an argument of "if we had more diversity it wouldn't be as bad", shouldn't you be focusing on the EDR vendors rather than the OS vendor?
is not it the case that kernel drivers are signed and approved by microsoft?
I'm not aware of Microsoft signing off on vendor kernal drivers code changes.
Driver signing is not a Quality Assurance measure. It's an identify measure.