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Yes, but they haven't always been perfect:

Local privilege escalation is a problem, to be sure, but they're not like Windows designed-in remote shell exploits. Windows has had a unique remote execution attack surface that's not shared by any other OS, introduced in 1997 as Active Desktop. The mitigated it a bit when they switched from the Explorer HTML control to the Word one in Outlook, but it's still an issue.
 
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Reminds me of this one time, my first job was at a mall food court restaurant and on this particular day I was super late getting to work, like late enough to be nervous that I'd get in serious trouble, but when I got there the parking lot was dead empty, and I found out the whole mall including my place was closed due to a several-hours-long power outage that still hadn't been resolved yet. The universe was on my side that day!

I would've known before I left, if I ever checked my voicemail... 🤭
 

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Windows isn't quite the inevitable denial of service attack that Bitlocker is.
We upgraded Surface Hubs to Windows 11 a couple of years ago and had a USB tool to work around bitasslockercock. I tried to list the hundreds of necessary steps here but Xen told to go jump in a lake. Not a bad idea on a warm day.
 
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SW Airlines not affected by the outage since they are running Windows 3.1.

This article is kind of lying, lol. SW Airlines wasn't affected by the CrowdStrike crash...because they don't use CrowdStrike.

Yeah sure, they CAN'T use CrowdStrike if they're running Win 3.1 but, that's backwards significance. If SW Airlines were using Windows 10, but still not using CrowdStrike, they wouldn't have been affected either.
 

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I am thankful it is summer. Most faculty don't touch university computers in July, and labs are reduced capacity. Furing a semester would add about 20k more computers to fix at OSU.
 
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Bartholomew Gallacher

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Crowdstrike will be most likely liable for the damage caused in France. There's been a similar case a few years ago involving the hosting provider OVH, and most of the principles raised there apply to many other jurisdictions as well. Multiple data centers burned at the same time, and OVH failed to restore backups because many were lost.

Most notably boiler plate statements which waive liability have no meaning in France, and in most circumstances its impossible to waive liability.

 
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