The CrowdStrike Outage - What Happened?

The CrowdStrike Outage - WTF Happened?
According to Microsoft, the CrowdStrike debacle affected 8.5M Windows machines! Yeah, but how many were servers and how many were clients?
Easiest explanations come from Dave Plummer's @DavesGarage TH-cam channel - shout out to him for making this so easy to understand:
• CrowdStrike IT Outage ...
• CrowdStrike Update: La...
Could WinPE (Preinstall Environment) not be able to help to fix the problem, along with:
PXE Boot, Wake-On-LAN, TPM/IPMI/vPro
Create a boot-up environment, pass the BitLocker key through (even if plain text) and execute script to remove culprit file.
Lots of misinformation in the press - horrible journalism!
In CIO - Gyana Swain article
www.cio.com/ar...
"exposed the fragility of cloud-dependent systems where a single point of failure can have cascading effects"
What cloud environments exactly is the article referring to?
This seemingly affected mainly Client machines running Windows 10/11, NOT cloud! Utter garbage!
We actually DO NOT KNOW because only what we can see (end user machines). Even if it did break Windows Servers - what's THAT got to do with the cloud??
This catastrophic failure cannot be BECAUSE we are running in the cloud - that's a ludicrous jump to conclusions
Conflating TWO SEPARATE things, completely; an update that broke Windows vs running workloads in the cloud
And before you say "Linux" - here's something to chew over:
www.theregiste...
Paul's own article for Bloor Research:
www.bloorresea...
ADDENDUM links:
‪@InternetOfBugs‬Development techniques that could have prevented it.
• Crowdstrike Internet O...
‪@windowsweekly‬"Scent of Carbon" (Episode 891):
• Scent of Carbon - Crow...
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Thanks again to my guest, Paul Bevan, for his insights. All opinions expressed in this video are solely of the person who gave them and do not reflect opinions/stance/policy of any other person(s)/employer(s)/organisations/entities/vendors, etc. All copyrights are of their respective owners and are used here (in various formats) purely for reference purposes and under fair use policy.
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