The BBC he says that "although most of the world faced the blue screen of death on Friday", there was one country that managed to escape almost unscathed: China.
The reason is really quite simple: CrowdStrike is hardly used at all. Very few organizations have bought the software from the US company which has, in the past, strongly articulated the cyber security threat posed by Beijing. Moreover, China is not as dependent on Microsoft as the rest of the world. Domestic companies such as Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei are the dominant cloud providers.
Thus, reports of holidays in China, when they did come, were mostly to foreign companies or organizations. On Chinese social networking sites, for example, some users complained that they were unable to check-in at international chain hotels such as Sheraton, Marriott and Hyatt in Chinese cities.
In recent years, government organizations, enterprises are increasingly replacing foreign IT systems with domestic ones.
"It's evidence of China's strategic manipulation of foreign technology businesses," says Josh Kennedy White, a cybersecurity expert at a Singapore-based firm.
“Microsoft operates in China through a local partner, 21Vianet, which manages its services independently of its global infrastructure. The company insulates China's essential services — such as banking and air transport — from global disruptions.”
"Beijing sees avoiding dependence on foreign systems as a way to support national security."
