CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Come on, it was right in their name. CrowdStrike. They were threatening us all this time.

I wish my Windows work machine wouldn’t boot. Everything worked fine for us. :-(

Imagine this happening during open heart surgery and all the monitors go blue!

Is there a good eli5 on what crowdstrike is, why it is so massively used, why it seems to be so heavily associated with Microsoft and what the hell happened?

cloudstrike crowdstrike should be sued into hell

Lol, they only bricked specific machines running their product. Everyone else was fine.

This was a business problem, not a user problem.

As a career QA, i just do not understand how this got through? Do they not use their own software? Do they not have a UAT program?

Heads will roll for this

They make software for both of them also though, IMO they're at fault for sure but so should be Microsoft for making a trash operating system.

What's the criteria for a Windows machine to be affected? I use Windows but haven't had any issues today.

They're not wrong.

on twitter?!?

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night. And when you strike fall like a thunderbolt.

Oh so its not windows only

CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Can an OS be bricked?:

A brick (or bricked device) is a mobile device, game console, router, computer or other electronic device that is no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage.[1] The term analogizes the device to a brick's modern technological usefulness.[2]

Edit: you may click the tiny down arrow if you think it can't. ;)