Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe
Working with third-party companies to define these standards and meet the concerns of these companies seems to be the way Microsoft is trying to avoid this type of controversy this time.
“We will continue to collaborate deeply with our MVI partners throughout the private overview,” wrote Weston.
Death comes for the blue screen
Microsoft changes the “B” in BSOD, but it’s less interesting than changes under the cap.
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Microsoft’s message describes a handful of other security -related window adjustments, including some that take alternative routes to prevent more crowdsstrike breakdowns.
Several modifications arrive for “the unexpected restart screen”, the official name less derogatory for what many Windows users have familiarly know as “the blue screen of death”. To start, the screen will now be black instead of blue, a change that Microsoft briefly tried to make Windows 11, but was then behind.
The unexpected restart screen has been “simplified” in a way that “improves readability and aligns better with the design principles of Windows 11, while preserving technical information on the screen for when it is necessary.”
But the more significant change is in the hood, in the form of a new feature called “rapid recovery of the machine” (QMR).
If a Windows PC has several unexpected restarts or enter a start -up loop – as has happened to many systems affected by the Crowdstrike bug – the PC will try to start in Windows Re, a stripped recovery environment that offers a handful of diagnostic options and can be used to enter safe mode or open the UEFI firmware. QMR will allow Microsoft to “largely deploy remedies targeted to assigned devices via Windows Re”, which makes it possible to solve certain problems even if PCs cannot be started in standard Windows, “quickly bringing users to a productive condition without requiring a complex manual intervention from it”.
QMR will be activated by default on Windows 11 Home, while the PRO and Enterprise versions will be configurable by IT administrators. The QMR functionality and the black version of the blue screen of death will both be added to Windows 11 24h2 later this summer. Microsoft plans to add additional personalization options for QMR “later this year”.
