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Microsoft is still helping CrowdStrike clean up the mess that kicked off a week ago when 8.5 million PCs went offline due to a buggy CrowdStrike update. Now, the software giant is calling for changes to Windows and has dropped some subtle hints that it’s prioritizing making Windows more resilient and is willing to prevent security vendors like CrowdStrike from accessing the Windows kernel.
While CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its testing software for its botched update, its software runs at the kernel level — the core part of an operating system that has unrestricted access to system memory and hardware. This means that if something goes wrong with CrowdStrike’s app, it can take down Windows machines with a Blue Screen of Death.
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