My take on microsoft's global server downfall
Not gonna lie, this was really surprising to hear. I was chilling when a relative called me telling that Microsoft is down in all the country and that this affected airports (atleast here in spain).
She didn't tell me much since she's not into the tech world like me and oveheard it in the radio, just called me because it may interested me.
Boy it did, I started to investigate and found out that the mainly affected services are Microsoft Azure (a cloud service they have) and the microsoft 365 office suit, also on the cloud.
One think I fully learnt today is not to look at the news on social
media. Check websites you trust or do RSS, because it's full of bots and
missinformation.
I don't say blogs won't be like that, but there isn't a shit ton of people
doing the same joke over and over again to try to get a bit of attention.
Once my search concluded (which was a quick search on brave reading some news articles and looking at downdetector), I discovered that it was a failed update on their cloud system and their "antivirus" detected their own programs as a menace to the system.
This reminds me of a message I recieved from a friend, who has way more
experience and knowledge than me, that said:
according to what the comment say, Microsoft has launched a "failed"
update that "fucks up" the windows 11's bootloader that makes the death
screen pop up at the 6th-7th second after booting up the computer
It's a coincidence way too big to let it pass just like that. It may be my brain trying to make connections to unrelated stuff, but both a cloud fall and windows hang up? No way. Tho I haven't seen any case, so take this last one as a rumor.
Going to the consecuences, it left a lot of companies unable to work.
Here in spain, it affected airlines like Iberia, Ryanair, companies like
Repsol, and even the fucking town hall of Madrid.
Tho knowing that they pay a lot of money so in case of a system fail they
can blame microsoft (they told me that one time I went to a trip from the
highschool, I need to write about that) it's no surprise they are affected
as well.
Now, do you guys see normal that half the country is unable to work because of the incompetence of a single company? This is why a monopoly is so dangerous. Our whole future is in the hands of a few people unless we do something to change that asap.
I don't say you need to leave windows now and switch over to GNU/Linux (despite heavily encouraging it). At the end of the day, a lot of people develop software only for windows because of the huge marketshare they hold, everyone is familiar with windows. The problem is, that we are dependent on a company that tries to do anything on their power to be the only company in charge of our technology and we can't even trust on if their software is doing exactly what they say it's doing.
People deserve, no, they have the right to choose what they use. If you want to use Windows, or mac; office or libreoffice; photoshop or GIMP; whatsapp or telegram... People should use them because they choose to, not because a big company forces them to.
Now the internet is only five sites and if one falls, everything crumbles. I understand we as humans make mistakes, Errare humanum est, but this is ridiculous
To conclude with this post I want to say two things:
- You people have the right to use whatever you want, being open source or not, but it's unacceptable that we are forced to use certain services because other than you decided to.
- We shouldn't depend on a single company, cuz if they mess up, everything falls appart. I understand that we as humans depend on and help each other to survive, that's how we evolved. But we can't be depending on a company for us to work or basically do anything
Sorry if this post looks a little rushed, it's because it is. I wanted to share my thoughts on this matter asap. I want to work on this website since I think I have a clear vission on how to do it.
Once I port this document to my computer (I'm writting this on the msdos thinkpad) I'll publish this entry both on my website, newgrounds and spacehey. And then I'll start writting a post about all the new ideas I have for this site, so stay tuned!