The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization

As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructureA global IT failure wreaked havoc on Friday, grounding flights and disrupting everything from hospitals to government agencies. Over all the chaos hung a question: how did a flawed update to Microsoft Windows software bring large swaths of society to a screeching halt?The problem originated with an Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike, relied upon by m