Occasionally a tech story makes its way out of our nerdy little bubble and into the big wide world. Outages, bugs, and cybersecurity incidents happen in the tech industry, but the damage usually isn't large enough to warrant the sustained interest of the general public at large.
The CrowdStrike outage was different. Health services, flights, global banking operations, significantly affected. All-too-familiar blue screens of death cropping up on billboards in Times Square. And a million headlines, many of which name-dropped Microsoft and borked Windows PCs as the root cause of the issue.
