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[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago

Not sure how many Chinese firms would even consider CrowdStrike.

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

Why no blue screen for China will cause incoming collapse of its economy.

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The pedant in me wants to point out that Microsoft had very little to do with this outage, but it’s at war with the part of me that thinks Microsoft is absolutely not worth defending in any way.

[–] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 months ago

China is the land of the free

[–] sloth@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

... but at what cost?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago
[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

sure they avoided billions of dollars in economic losses, but at what cost?

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The article doesn't tackle much on what software or operating system China uses. It only mentions Harmony OS, which is based on Android.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Harmony is the mobile and iot OS, it is also no longer based on Android. For the replacement of Windows on critical systems it's a Linux distro called Kylin maintained by the National University of Defense Technology.

https://www.kylinos.cn/