Tech Desk
Jul 22, 2024
The tech week has begun and the previous one closed with some negative accounts involving an extent of disastrous impact that affected the entire world.
By negative account, we mean the global IT outage that crashed over 8 million Windows devices, as underlined in the official Microsoft blog.
Such an extent of device crashes has prompted IT fanatics around the world to come up with a workaround to reinstate their functionality.
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While the technology hiatus led to thousands of flights being cancelled, health sector appointments delayed and turned major retailer payment methods non-functional, Apple's Macbook stood tall against the bug solely because of the potent protections integrated by the iPhone maker.
On the contrary, Microsoft is said to have claimed that it's legally unable to instil the same calibre of protection.
Although some experts in the IT sphere said that these updates take place several times a day, they did not reflect on how a bug sneakily made its way into those 8.5 million PCs without being spotted in the testing phase.
The primary factor that secured Macs from crashing is that Apple does not extend in-depth access to operating systems to security apps.
