Apple founder Steve Jobs on Microsoft: A clip of Apple founder Steve Jobs’ view on Microsoft is doing the rounds on social media platforms as CrowdStrike’s recent software update gaffe led to worldwide outage of MS Windows-run systems.
In an old interview with journalist Bob Cringely, Jobs said Microsoft had “no taste”, adding that they lack originality and “don’t bring much culture” in their products.
“The only problem with Microsoft is that they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And what that means is – I don’t mean that in a small way. I mean that in a big way. They don’t think of original ideas and don’t bring much culture into their products,” Jobs said.
He also took a jab at the tech major’s “third-rate products”, but pre-faced that it did “earned their success”.
“Well, why is that important? Well, proportionally-spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books. That’s where one gets the idea. If it weren’t for the Mac, they would never have that in their products. And so, I guess I am saddened. Not by Microsoft’s success. I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products,” Jobs added.
Steve Jobs about Microsoft – They make third class products. Today many people would be feeling it.#Microsoft #bluescreen #Windows
— Ashutosh Mishra (@caashutosh22) July 19, 2024
‘Blue Screen of Death’
A severe outage at Microsoft’s cloud service Azure on July 19, caused by an update from cyber security firm CrowdStrike, wreaked global havoc as the outage caused devices using the Windows operating systems to crash.
Millions of users, including sensitive sector workers such as healthcare professionals, air traffic personnel and bankers faced hours of the so-called ‘blue screen of death’ on their systems as the faulty update interrupted regular work.
The outage led to companies shifting to manual processes and also cancelling services in some cases, with things seemingly veering towards normal by the end of the day.
In a post on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the company “is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts”.
“Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected. We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption. We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can deliver the services their customers are counting on. As noted earlier, the issue has been identified and a fix has been deployed. There was an issue with a Falcon content update for Windows Hosts,” Kurtz added.