Nearly a week after a failed update from CrowdStrike shut down over 8 million Windows PCs worldwide, the company's CEO now says that over 97 percent of Windows sensors are back online.
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In a new blog post, Microsoft says that last week's Windows issues caused by the fault CrowdStrike update shows "Windows must prioritize change and innovation" with "end-to-end resilience."
The CrowdStrike Windows outage that hit the world this week stems back to an EU-Microsoft deal from 2009 that meant Microsoft had to give antivirus vendors the same Windows API access it had.
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