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Sean Endicott

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Microsoft wants to make future crowdstrike outages impossible and it could mean big changes for security software - The Untold Story

Surface Laptop 5 .

What you need to know

  • A massive outage caused by a CrowdStrike bug caused 8.5 million PCs to crash and affeted countless people and businesses.
  • The outage was caused by a CrowdStrike update with a bug that was able to affect PCs due to the app having kernel access to Windows 11.
  • In response to the outage, Microsoft appears to be interested in moving away from security software having Windows 11 kernel access.
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