The CrowdStrike outage hit millions of Windows computers last Friday, leaving IT staff scrambling to get an organization’s computer infrastructure back up and running. Pictures and stories shared online illustrate just how tedious and daunting the task can be.
These actions must be performed on each affected computer.
This work is particularly evident at busy airports, where workers are trying to repair machines inside self-service kiosks, attached to large information displays, or installed high on the floor where ladders are required.
In a Reddit thread, people told stories of long hours and hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of machines crashing:
