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Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines (www.youtube.com)
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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Keep in mind, it's not just clients, but servers too. A friend of mine works for a decently sized company that has about 1600 (virtual) servers internationally. And yes, all of them were affected.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You do realize that linux is something like 80% of servers. Which also well out number personal machines. If you include android linux is easily the most used os on the planet.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s 80% of web servers but not 80% of ALL servers.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 months ago

if the question is which os has the most distinct running copies then yeah its linux.