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CrowdStrike also said it recognized the “additional work that the July 19 incident has caused.”

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A recent CrowdStrike outage caused millions of PCs to show the “Blue Screen of Death."

CrowdStrike Outage

The recent outage triggered by CrowdStrike was one of the worst in global history.

Millions of computers were affected, which in turn likely affected billions of people.

Planes were grounded, banks were affected, and emergency services were down in some areas.

Microsoft and Crowdstrike outage shown on Downdetector

The recent CrowdStrike outage caused millions of PCs to crash and countless services to stop working.

The outage was triggered by a faulty CrowdStrike kernel driver.

A former Microsoft software engineer named Dave Plummer has anextensive video breaking down the CrowdStrike situation.

At one point, Microsoft recommendedrestarting devices up to 15 timesto speed up recovery.

Microsoft global service outage

Perhaps restarting the Uber Eats app 15 times will make the $10 codes sent by CrowdStrike work.

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