Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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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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I don't think that's what's happening here. As far as I know it's an issue with a driver installed on the computers, not with anything trying to reach out to an external server. If that were the case you'd expect it to fail to boot any time you don't have an Internet connection.

Windows is bad but it's not that bad yet.

It’s just a fun coincidence that the azure outage was around the same time.

Yep, and it's harder to fix Windows VMs in Azure that are effected because you can't boot them into safe mode the same way you can with a physical machine.

expect it to fail to boot any time you don't have an Internet connection.

So, like the UbiSoft umbilical but for OSes.

Edit: name of publisher not developer.