Microsoft wants to make future CrowdStrike outages impossible, and it could mean big changes for security software
The recent CrowdStrike outage caused 8.5 million PCs to crash, affected millions of people, and potentially cost businesses billions of dollars. Referred to by many as the “digital pandemic,” the outage has drawn response from CrowdStrike, Microsoft, and security experts. The outage was caused by a CrowdStrike bug, and Microsoft is looking into options that could make similar outages impossible in the future. that outright.