“The Microsoft Windows outage that affected foreign businesses and luxury hotels in China on Friday left the country’s key infrastructure, from airlines to banks, largely unaffected, according to industry sources and social media posts.
As of 6pm local time, there have been no reports in mainland China of infrastructure breakdowns, while many airports in the Asia-Pacific region, from Hong Kong to Australia, were hit with disruptions.
At the same time, the Windows error that resulted in a bluescreen on computers became a hot topic on Chinese social media platforms such as Weibo, as many foreign business offices across the country were affected by the breakdown.
China’s relative immunity to the outage showed the country’s reduced reliance on foreign service providers such as Microsoft and the antivirus company CrowdStrike. In recent years, China has been rolling out a campaign across its government departments and key infrastructure operators to replace foreign hardware and systems with domestic ones.
The minimal impact of the Microsoft outage in China has proved that the country has made progress in achieving its goal of “safe and controllable” computing systems, according to one Chinese government employee.”
Uh… isn’t it crowdstrike that is the issue?
Like China never does dumb shit.
Same with Iran, because they use cracked versions of Microsoft windows, and they didn’t get that patch.
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“The Microsoft Windows outage that affected foreign businesses and luxury hotels in China on Friday left the country’s key infrastructure, from airlines to banks, largely unaffected, according to industry sources and social media posts.
As of 6pm local time, there have been no reports in mainland China of infrastructure breakdowns, while many airports in the Asia-Pacific region, from Hong Kong to Australia, were hit with disruptions.
At the same time, the Windows error that resulted in a bluescreen on computers became a hot topic on Chinese social media platforms
such as Weibo, as many foreign business offices across the country were affected by the breakdown.
China’s relative immunity to the outage showed the country’s reduced reliance on foreign service providers such as Microsoft and the antivirus company CrowdStrike. In recent years, China has been rolling out a campaign across its government departments and key infrastructure operators to replace foreign hardware and systems with domestic ones.
The minimal impact of the Microsoft outage in China has proved that the country has made progress in achieving
its goal of “safe and controllable” computing systems, according to one Chinese government employee.”
Uh… isn’t it crowdstrike that is the issue?
Like China never does dumb shit.
Same with Iran, because they use cracked versions of Microsoft windows, and they didn’t get that patch.