I worked in sales for a Fortune 500 tech equipment and software manufacturer. When a customer had a serious outage with a single piece of our equipment it would cause them to stop and reevaluate their purchasing plans and dependence on my company.

IMO every government and business out there is going to be looking at this at every level and IT departments will be tasked to significantly reduce their reliance on Microsoft products. It will take years to actually happen, but I think Microsoft sales are going to take a serious, long term, and well-deserved hit.

[–] peg@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The problem is Crowdstrike, not Microsoft.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Makes not the least bit of difference: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/the-microsoftcrowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization

Literally hundreds of millions of people around the world have seen the Microsoft BSODs that resulted from this fuck up. Millions of people have had their lives disrupted. The vast majority of those will blame Microsoft. Executive boards and IT groups may know better but it won't matter all that much - they will be aggressively looking to reduce their exposure to Microsoft's near monopoly anyway.

[–] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Darwin enters the conversation, "Ah chem!"

(raises finger) (lowers finger) (moves onto a species that can configure their own network and printer)