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What if I told you the cause was a failure of a dependency running CrowdStrike

Then I would say they should read their own blog post: "...a reminder of how important it is for all of us across the tech ecosystem to prioritize operating with safe deployment and disaster recovery using the mechanisms that exist..."

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/20/helping-our-cust...

From your linked piece:

"CrowdStrike has helped us develop a scalable solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix"

What if I told you that such Mag7 speak is not to be trusted, at all, even?

Much of the media has reported the crowdstrike mess as a Microsoft problem (because it only affected Windows hosts). Even still, this is not a good look for Windows. In no way is Microsoft happy about the crowdstrike situation.

cant have an office outage when you can’t boot into windows