farcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareBeaver@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down12·2 months agoThis why windows 11 needing an online account to sign up is a bad idea
minus-squareJohnnyCanuck@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoTurns out this is a CrowdStrike issue though, so unrelated in this case.
minus-squarelmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoIt’s a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·2 months agoYep, the only real functions of that is copy protection, and Microsoft gathering data.
This why windows 11 needing an online account to sign up is a bad idea
Turns out this is a CrowdStrike issue though, so unrelated in this case.
It’s a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
Yep, the only real functions of that is copy protection, and Microsoft gathering data.
Or maybe just generally a bad idea…