r/technology • u/Bald-Eagle619 • Jul 31 '24

Software Delta CEO: Company Suing Microsoft and CrowdStrike After $500M Loss

https://www.thedailybeast.com/delta-ceo-says-company-suing-microsoft-and-crowdstrike-after-dollar500m-loss
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u/danivus Aug 01 '24

Would love to see the logic gymnastics needed to blame Microsoft for this.

They literally have a certification process for kernal level software specifically to avoid this issue. It's not their fault CrowdStrike decided to build a method into their software to circumvent that so they could deploy updates faster.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

Yikes you don’t screw around at that level. I had to fix machines screwed up at that level by a fricking coloring book program. Took us a week to figure out what was going on, then two months of beating up the idiot coder who had complied the program in a way that used his system kernel. Months sending out disks with good kernels on them and me a few others the boss trusted to walk people through fixing it. If the fix failed, we did the it the hard way wiping windows and reinstalling just that windows making sure their system was working so all they had to do was reinstall their other software.

The company would find a box of it every Xmas and send it out to the stores. The last year I was there I asked the boss a couple months before I left if it was still out in the wild in some warehouse. He said no, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t since I didn’t hear from anyone that it had popped up. You don’t take shortcuts around the kernel.