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by Osiris 694 days ago
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?

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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.