Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue
Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue

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Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue

Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue
Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue
This why windows 11 needing an online account to sign up is a bad idea
It's a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
Crowdstrike has a lot of internal control of your machine in order to do things like hook into the processes you are running to observe any malicious activity. It makes sense that a bug could bring the whole system down.
Turns out this is a CrowdStrike issue though, so unrelated in this case.
Yep, the only real functions of that is copy protection, and Microsoft gathering data.
Or maybe just generally a bad idea...