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What caused the great CrowdStrike-Windows meltdown of 2024? History has the answer

When a trusted software provider delivers an update that causes PCs to immediately stop working across the world, chaos ensues. Last week's incident wasn't the first such event. Here's how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty ImagesMicrosoft Windows powers more than a billion PCs and millions of servers worldwide, many of them playing key roles in facilities that serve customers directly. "The result of the bug," CrowdStrike wrote in a customer advisory, "is a logic error in the CsFalconService that can cause the Falcon sensor for Windows to consume 100% of a single CPU core." In the most recent CrowdStrike earnings call, CEO George Kurtz boasted about the company's ability to "ship game-changing products at rapid pace," taking special aim at Microsoft:

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