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Really impressive that they got thru an entire develop, build, approval, and documentation process in just about 2 days. Not that any of those steps are extremely hard for this fix, but I'm always impressed when big corporations can move so fast
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Congrats? Microsoft has higher quality assurance concerns since anything with their name on it means customers will come beating down their door for support if ANYTHING goes wrong even if it's not them.
> Microsoft has higher quality assurance concerns... No, they don't. This is the same company that has turned the Windows OS into an advertisement platform within the OS [0]. A company that puts buggy telemetry collection over their end users [1]. And a platform that is known to spy on its end users [2]. So, no - Microsoft really doesn't care about its end users with "higher quality assurance concerns". They care abo…
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They could say "third party kernel modules are installed at your own risk" and provide the usual level of business hours support. CrowdStrike fucked up and Microsoft is helping its customers recover from CrowdStrike's fuckup.
They made a special memory allocator for Windows 95 to avoid a crash caused by a bug in SimCity https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii... They are not only backward compatible or bug compatible. They are others-person-bug compatible. It's the only way to prevent users thinking about switching to another OS.
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They recommend crowdstrike to customers. Now they are trying to at least skim some good will. Also bad a kernel module that can ruin the OS is partially their fault.
I also think Microsoft should be responsible, they gave the keys to sign the kernel driver so I expect that driver to at least be subject to regular testing and scrutiny not just when initial release was made.
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When their bottom line and head is at stake, what were they supposed to do?
They could say "third party kernel modules are installed at your own risk" and provide the usual level of business hours support. CrowdStrike fucked up and Microsoft is helping its customers recover from CrowdStrike's fuckup.
We released ours the same day as the mass crashes :) https://x.com/mqudsi/status/1814367837940515098
Also, while they're at it, add Trellex.
Really impressive that they got thru an entire develop, build, approval, and documentation process in just about 2 days. Not that any of those steps are extremely hard for this fix, but I'm always impressed when big corporations can move so fast
Really impressive that they got thru an entire develop, build, approval, and documentation process in just about 2 days. Not that any of those steps are extremely hard for this fix, but I'm always impressed when big corporations can move so fast
I sympathize with the engineers, QA, and everyone involved in getting this out. I have to imagine it was a lot of long hours, and the testing was insane. The last thing I want to do is put this tool out and it somehow messes things up more. But glad it’s out. Hopefully it helps with the remaining machines and with any that are being problematic.