95% of the Fortune 500 uses Crowdstrike..

This is essentially what y2K was supposed to be.

Imagine being the poor fuckers who coded the update that caused this.

Also, people need to be prepared for things like this to happen more often. We can't fool ourselves that propping the whole world on computers isn't precarious. 911 outages have doomsday potential with all the conflicts in the world, the opioid crisis, and shamefully frequent mass shootings. Act accordingly. I'll be picking up Narcan and a heavy duty first aid kit in the immediate future. 

I think it's planned / on purpose - about finance.

Guy posting, he is the sole engineer at a firm. Boss told him to fix 2000 machines, this minute!

He's overwhelmed and crying.  Collateral (human) damage.