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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah my plans of going to sleep last night were thoroughly dashed as every single windows server across every datacenter I manage between two countries all cried out at the same time lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I always wondered who even used windows server given how marginal its marketshare is. Now i know from the news.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Marginal? You must be joking. A vast amount of servers run on Windows Server. Where I work alone we have several hundred and many companies have a similar setup. Statista put the Windows Server OS market share over 70% in 2019. While I find it hard to believe it would be that high, it does clearly indicate it's most certainly not a marginal percentage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not getting an account on Statista, and I agree that its marketshare isn't "marginal" in practice, but something is up with those figures, since overwhelmingly internet hosted services are on top of Linux. Internal servers may be a bit different, but "servers" I'd expect to count internet servers...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Most servers aren't Internet-facing.