In this post. Microsoft blames the 2009 EU agreement for not protecting Windows the way Apple did, which led to a major technology failure.
Millions of Windows computers displayed a blue screen of death, causing outages and the cancellation of about 2,000 flights.
a decentralized system would have minimized the impact and reduced the risk of widespread failure by decentralizing security controls.
Microsoft blames the European Union for the tech disaster, saying a 2009 agreement with the European Commission prevents it from locking down the operating system like Apple. According to the WSJ, the agreement forces Microsoft to give other security software vendors the same level of access to Windows that it has. On Friday, the "blue screen of death" reappeared on millions of computers.
security experts say Microsoft didn't take weaknesses in its software seriously enough. According to the company's blog, 8.5 million Windows computers were affected, less than 1% of the world's total. But it was enough to paralyze major companies in the health care, media and restaurant industries. The disruptions continued on Saturday, with U. S. airlines canceling about 2,000 flights, up from 3,400 the day before. Delta was hardest hit, canceling more than half of its flights on Saturday.
The cause of the outage was a buggy update sent to corporate customers by Crowdstrike, one of several cybersecurity companies trying to protect Windows. Microsoft has its own competing product, Windows Defender.
On Friday, CrowdStrike's CEO admitted fault and said he was working hard to get customers back to work. However, his apology was seen as offensive, and many influential people, including #Elon Musk and Stephen King, condemned him.
This wouldn't have happened if everything was decentralized. By distributing data and security management across multiple nodes, distributed systems eliminate single points of failure. nn Even if one node is compromised, the entire system remains operational.
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