CrowdStrike confirms Macs are 'not impacted' by a global outage impacting airlines, banks, and more — and a fix is on the way

[iMore.com]

CrowdStrike, the company whose update has brought airlines, banks, and other industries to their knees via a global PC outage, says Macs are unaffected and that a fix "has been deployed."

CrowdStrike confirms Macs are 'not impacted' by a global outage impacting airlines, banks, and more — and a fix is on the way : Read more

 

[FFR]

Sucks to be a windows user

 

[EdwinG]

Sucks to be an ICT employee today. I feel for the Service Desk Technologists and Systems Administrators that will need to do some cleanup after this.

CrowdStrike will need to do an RCA and ensure this doesn’t happen again.

Even if it’s not Microsoft’s direct fault, I hope Microsoft prohibits kernel-level modules from being loaded in the future, but that’s going to take time if they do that - like 5-15 years easily.

 

[FFR]

I wonder how many Enterprises will be switching to the mac

 

[Just_Me_D]

I wonder how many Enterprises will be switching to the mac

Companies, in my opinion, have been switching to Macs for quite some time. Having said that, it’s going to take several more outages like this to get big companies to set the money aside to switch completely over.

 

[FFR]

Companies, in my opinion, have been switching to Macs for quite some time. Having said that, it’s going to take several more outages like this to get big companies to set the money aside to switch completely over.

True, but if you remember it took a massive blackberry outage to kill the brand in the enterprise.

And this is a massive outage for Microsoft.

 

[Just_Me_D]

True, but if you remember it took a massive blackberry outage to kill the brand in the enterprise.

And this is a massive outage for Microsoft.

From what I gather, Windows users who do not have their system set to auto-update are not affected — at least that’s what I’m being told.

 

[FFR]

From what I gather, Windows users who do not have their system set to auto-update are not affected — at least that’s what I’m being told.

Could be, but I have never seen this happen to Microsoft at this scale. Uk, Germany, France, Australia have all been affected.