well its not a windows outage, its a cloudstrike outage. China isn't dumb enough to hand over all their computers to this stupid grift company.
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truly a testament of China's strategy: exploiting Western advances (Windows) w/o major capitalist downsides (their internet going down) like the rest of the West
but at what cost?!
Man I'd be curious to see what this CrowdStrike shitstorm costs westoid corpos lol
Yeah, especially when you consider that it didn't just fuck up all of CrowdStrike's customers, but all their customer's customers and so on.
Exactly lol.
For once, huge things are not happening in China
The impact was micro and soft