Microsoft News of the Day – Windows OS News

The Washington Post

Regulators and lawmakers said the sprawling outage that knocked out Microsoft's Windows across the globe shows the danger of a single company's …

Fortune

A faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected 8.5 million devices globally that rely on the Microsoft Windows operating …

WSJ

The blue screen of death has been a dreaded symbol of technological failure since Microsoft's Windows became the world's dominant operating system …

Business Insider

Microsoft estimated that 8.5 million machines using Windows software were affected. Experts say the outage could cost billions of dollars …

The Verge

Microsoft's recovery tool now makes this recovery process less manual, by booting into its Windows PE environment via USB, accessing the disk of the …

Euronews.com

The glitch was caused by a corrupted update which caused computers running Windows to crash, causing havoc across much of the world.

CrowdStrike

The outage was caused by a defect found in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This was not a cyberattack …

Bleeping Computer

Microsoft has released a custom WinPE recovery tool to find and remove the faulty CrowdStrike update that crashed an estimated 8.5 million Windows …

SecurityWeek

Microsoft released a USB tool to help IT administrators through the repair process for Windows systems impacted by the CrowdStrike IT issue.

AP News

That's less than 1% of all Windows-based machines, Microsoft cybersecurity executive David Weston said in a blog post on Saturday. He also said …