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“ … vendor ecosystem’s dependency on Microsoft might be rationalized as cost-cutting, just as the dependency that Microsoft will have on another company like CrowdStrike will be rationalized as cost-cutting.

The real cost is externalized: when these services shut down, who truly suffers? CrowdStrike’s chief executive, George Kurtz, has lost hundreds of millions of his fortune, but it will return. Microsoft and CrowdStrike have lost some clients and some business, but will undoubtedly gain more than it had within a year or two.

Is the same true for those who needed unavailable emergency services, hospitals, airports or government agencies? Is it true for the rest of society that has not only grown dependent on digital mediation and computation without much input because these processes are driven by absolutist economic firms, not democratic political actors?”

“ … vendor ecosystem’s dependency on Microsoft might be rationalized as cost-cutting, just as the dependency that Microsoft will have on another company like CrowdStrike will be rationalized as cost-cutting.

The real cost is externalized: when these services shut down, who truly suffers? CrowdStrike’s chief executive, George Kurtz, has lost hundreds of millions of his fortune, but it will return. Microsoft and CrowdStrike have lost some clients and some business, but will undoubtedly gain more than it had within a year or two.

Is the same true for those who needed unavailable emergency services, hospitals, airports or government agencies? Is it true for the rest of society that has not only grown dependent on digital mediation and computation without much input because these processes are driven by absolutist economic firms, not democratic political actors?”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/the-microsoftcrowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization

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