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Jason England

Windows Blue Screen of Death hits millions in Microsoft and CrowdStrike outage — what you need to know

Windows Blue Screen of Death.

This has not been a good day for literally any Windows PC on Earth. Businesses have been affected by a glitchy CrowdStrike security update, which is causing Windows computers to be hit by the Blue Screen of Death.

Normally, this was just isolated to an individual user’s frustrations, which are fixed by entering System Recovery. But the scope of this is so massive, that it’s impacting airlines, banks, TV channels, and even emergency services. You can follow along with the latest on this outage on our live blog.

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