CrowdStrike became a famous company for a not-so-pleasant reason, and that was by getting off the ground failed update for Windows 11, which crashed no more and no less than 8.5 million computers of companies and banks around the world, which ultimately affected a huge number of people and, according to the latest and reliable estimates, caused losses worth several billion dollars.

A failure of this caliber must be accompanied by a competent and appropriate approach on the part of the responsible company, but CrowdStrike didn’t do that well either. The company apologized generically to its customers and offered them a paltry $10 gift card to UberEats as “compensation.” All very logical, I lost millions of dollars because of you and you give me a $10 gift card for food and coffee, excellent.

The blow was so great that it was considered a digital pandemic, which confirms the fragility of our society and which also highlights the enormous dependence we have on technology in our daily lives. Something as simple as a botched Windows 11 update can end up bringing business giants and banks to their knees, and Microsoft is clear that He doesn’t want it to happen again.

It could restrict access to the Windows 11 core to third parties

This is one of the most important changes that Microsoft would consider to prevent something like the CrowdStrike incident from happening again. Update released by this company work at the kernel level in the specified operating systemand can access key parts of the system that would normally be prohibited.

If the wrong update is released, it has just as serious an impact because it has a broad approach into every corner of Windows 11. John Cable, vice president of Windows Service and Delivery Program Management, said on Microsoft’s official blog that what happened with CrowdStrike shows that changes and innovations in end-to-end reliability, suggesting that they are necessary drastic changes.

Restrict access to the Windows 11 core to third parties It’s a great option because a faulty update could no longer result in a blue screen on affected computers, but this would of course require the introduction of important changes. Microsoft has not yet said what exactly it plans to do to prevent another incident like CrowdStrike from happening again, so now we can only wait to see what decisions the Redmond giant will eventually make in this regard.

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