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Delta's new attorney seeks over $350 million from Microsoft and CrowdStrike after the global outage — a $10 gift card won't cut it
By Kevin Okemwa published
PAY UP! Delta Air Lines has hired prominent attorney David Boies to seek damages from Microsoft and CrowdStrike.
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Microsoft wants to make future CrowdStrike outages impossible, and it could mean big changes for security software
By Sean Endicott published
Zero trust In response to the recent CrowdStirke outage, Microsoft appears to be interested in moving away from allowing security apps to have kernel access on Windows 11.
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CrowdStrike sends out $10 Uber Eats codes as an apology, and some of them show an error message
By Sean Endicott published
Humble Pie After causing one of the largest Internet outages in history, CrowdStrike sent out $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology. Unfortunately, some of the cards do not work.
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A former Microsoft Software Engineer explains CrowdStrike's digital pandemic that left over 8.5 million Windows devices with annoying BSoD errors
By Kevin Okemwa published
CROWDSTUCK? Dave Plummer (aka Dave's Garage), a former Microsoft software engineer, recently shared a YouTube video explaining the digital pandemic caused by CrowdStrike.
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It looks as if the best way of avoiding the CrowdStrike drama was to run Windows 3.1 all along
By Richard Devine published
Ancient As its competitor airlines were grounded thanks to the CrowdStrike drama, Southwest carried on thanks to a now ancient version of Windows.
![Kevin Addley, VP Marketing & Growth at Future photographs a BSOD at JFK airport](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4WS3LNheXPPyL8wEcX5eBc-320-80.jpg)
Updated CrowdStrike recovery tool can save you from Blue Screen of Death, even without BitLocker recovery keys
By Sean Endicott published
2 > 1 You can now recover a PC affected by the CrowdStrike outage without BitLocker recovery keys, at least in certain situations.
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Elon Musk blames diversity efforts for the widespread CrowdStrike digital pandemic that stunted Microsoft services
By Kevin Okemwa published
DIVERSITY TURMOIL While Microsoft and CrowdStrike have issued statements indicating the issue has been fixed, Elon Musk used the opportunity to attack the latter's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
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Microsoft tackles catastrophic global IT outage as 'CrowdStrike' security blames update bug for grounded flights and more
By Ben Wilson last updated
Mass outages The dreaded 'Blue Screen of Death' error hits Microsoft-powered devices across the globe's infrastructure.
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"Not now sweetie, Mummy's making CrowdStrike memes" — a compilation of the finest jokes the internet has created amongst crippling digital chaos
By Jennifer Young published
CAN I HAZ MEMES As the digital world burned, so did some fire jokes. Here's the best the internet had to offer of CrowdStrike and Microsoft memes from around the world.
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CrowdStrike's CEO finally apologizes after users react angrily to the firm's response to the Windows BSOD apocalypse
By Jez Corden published
Crowdstruck Initially, Crowdstrike seemed to refuse to take responsibility for the outages affecting thousands upon thousands of PCs across the globe today.
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