The first Blue Screen of Death appeared in Windows NT 3.1, the first version of the Windows NT family, released in 1993, and later became the butt of all jokes about Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
Leaving end users with a head scratching moment was the error code that followed, which generally stated “the error is the code,” meaning that it was anyone’s guess as to what specially happened to cause the error or in some cases, a complete stop of the operating system.
With the recent event of Windows computers being completely inoperable, it should strike anyone that works in the information technology field to conjure up the thought of “why in the hell are we using this operating system for critical business operations!?”
Airlines, Banks, Police departments, Hospitals, you name it, they were all effected the other day when a security company called CloudStrike issued an update and just like that, over eight million windows computers, servers, etc all crashed.
This leaves anyone with just the slightest amount of brain cells to ask “why could it not continue to run without calling home to mommy every ten seconds to find out if it was ok to continue working.”
Sadly, Microsoft has become one of the information gathering gluttons of big tech.
Everything from shoving advertisement down your throat on “your” personal PC to siphoning as much information as possible about your activities, again “on your PC.” And if you believe the bullshit of it being innocuous “metadata,” think again. You are forced to create an account on Microsoft so you can register/use the PC and license that you bought.
That means, that innocent metadata that is being transmitted back to the glutton that Microsoft is, is being sent with your account information attached to it.