I think a lot of you really underestimate how little the technical merit of software has anything to do with what businesses use in their tech stacks. we SHOULD be using some minimal turbo-autism embedded OS for a lot of the things that Crowdstrike brought down -- you know critical infrastructure stuff like fucking banks and hospitals -- but everything uses Windows because the people who are in charge of these things usually are also completely tech illiterate. they just choose Windows because it's the safe option and the industry standard and everyone else already uses it and they can't get sued for regulatory security compliance shit if they just use what everyone else is using. this of course circular reasoning that goes back to Microsoft's predatory business practices that got them where they are today, but this also describes LITERALLY EVERY "industry standard" in tech.

it only makes it all the more hilarious too how techbros are some of the most likely people to believe in meritocracy when the tech industry is easily the best refutation in existence of the idea that we've built a civilization that rewards merit. quite the fucking contrary.

so there you go, thats why fucking Windows runs most of our civilization's computing infrastructure, because power is inversely correlated to competence in this hellworld.