[LINK] The Great IT Outage of 2024

[Chris Maltby]

It depends on the driver, but it's routine for updates to things like 
video or lan drivers to update without a reboot.

It's possible that the CrowdStrike driver installed itself and then 
crashed, or the driver update process forced a reboot which then 
crashed. Either way...

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From: 	Frank O'Connor <francisoconnor3 at tpg.com.au>
To: 	Chris Maltby <chris at sw.oz.au>
Cc: 	LINK List <link at anu.edu.au>
Date: 	Sun, July 21 2024 08:40:08am GMT+00:00
Subject: 	[LINK] The Great IT Outage of 2024

> They update, yes … but I’ve yet to hit a Windows driver update that
> didn’t need a reboot. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. I do use a
>   third party driver and software updater utility, in preference to
> updating through Windows, but I think the same update then reboot is
> necessary in Windows.