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Not sure how many Chinese firms would even consider CrowdStrike.
The pedant in me wants to point out that Microsoft had very little to do with this outage, but it’s at war with the part of me that thinks Microsoft is absolutely not worth defending in any way.
Why no blue screen for China will cause incoming collapse of its economy.
China is the land of the free
sure they avoided billions of dollars in economic losses, but at what cost?
... but at what cost?
The article doesn't tackle much on what software or operating system China uses. It only mentions Harmony OS, which is based on Android.
Harmony is the mobile and iot OS, it is also no longer based on Android. For the replacement of Windows on critical systems it's a Linux distro called Kylin maintained by the National University of Defense Technology.
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