[hi_hi]

I'm sure we've all heard the phrase "We're a Windows shop" in some variation.

I understand the reasons for it, and why large, billion dollar companies try to create some sort of efficiency by centralising on one "vendor", but, then this happens.

I don't know how to fix the problem of following "Industry Trends" when every layer above me in the organisation is telling me not to spend the time (money) to investigate alternative software choices which don't fit into their nice box.

[Osiris]

The outage was not because of the OS. It was a kernel driver that attempted to use invalid memory.

The same thing crash could happen with any kernel driver in any operating system.

You've never seen Linux crash because of a driver bug?

[hi_hi]

Yes, I'm well aware. I wasn't trying to conflate a CrowdStrike problem with a Microsoft problem. Having said that, in this particular incident, the problems were specifically limited to Windows OS.