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If I'm Microsoft right now, I'm proactively sending people to every Fortune 500 company affected by this.

Posted by Mop🧹 (aka rburriel) Jul 19 '24, 07:49

It's not a Microsoft problem, but Microsoft engineers can help with the starting of systems and getting them recovered. No b.s. about "switching from Cloudstrike" or anything like that. Just be there to help them recover. It'll engender goodwill and if, at a later date, there's a conversation about switching away from Cloudstrike, all the better. At least it'll keep some of them from exploring "alternatives to Microsoft."

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I'll be honest, i assume this is Microsoft's fault so they better get ahead of that PR nightmare fast before worrying about anything else -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:11 13
- Precisely why I feel Microsoft needs boots on the ground, just to get ahead of this. - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 08:15 6
  - Also considering the major news outlets are essentially all blaming Microsoft -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 08:23
  - Just got my email from Microsoft windows release health: "CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints causing..." -- (edited) - oblique Jul 19, 08:17 4
    - right, even with this I assumed Crowdstrike was just another offshoot of a microsoft subsidiary and they are just trying to blame them to save face -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:21 3
      - This isn't Boeing and Sprit AeroSystems. This is an actual competitor who has pulled the neat trick where they've screwed up and yet their biggest - JD Jul 19, 08:31
      - You seem to really have it in for Microsoft 🤪 - JD Jul 19, 08:26 1
        
        true to the im - hence this: "Crowdstrike has admitted they were drunk and will be immediately entering a rehab facility" -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:26
- Almost nothing of this is Microsoft's fault or issue -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:14 5
  - everyone will blame them though. already hearing family going nuts on them in FB chats -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:20 4
    - Oh bigtime. Starting with CNN: - Jovian Jul 19, 08:22 [Attachment] 2
      - It's lazy reporting at its finest. "Crowdstrike security software causes widespread IT outage. Here's why this is bad for Biden" -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:23 1
        
        Its yellow journalism at its finest. Its just now called 'lazy reporting' because that is the world we live in now. -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 08:24
    - Thanks, Obama -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:20
Fortune 500 companies have IT resources to address this. Microsoft should be resourced to answer their questions and assist with developing procedures - oblique Jul 19, 07:52 1
- Oh, I have no doubt. This is about "showing you care". -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 08:05
Well, part of this is an Azure outage, too. It's just that the Crowd strike part is worse. -- nm - Inigo Jul 19, 07:51 3
- Yes, there was an Azure outage last night. That cannot be ignored. It appears unrelated to Cloudstrike. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 07:52 2
  - I mean more that Microsoft needs to apologize for that part first. Then I agree with the rest. Also, *Crowd*strike. 🙂 -- nm - Inigo Jul 19, 07:54 1
    - Are you mocking my lisp?! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 08:06

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If I'm Microsoft right now, I'm proactively sending people to every Fortune 500 company affected by this.

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