Windows issues continue to pile up as a recent update is now causing headaches shortly after the huge CrowdStrike outage.
Oof, Windows is having a rough week. Only five days after a massive CrowdStrike update-slash-outage made headlines for crippling IT infrastructure all over the world (which, admittedly, is a CrowdStrike problem and not a Windows problem), a security update for Windows itself is sending PCs into recovery. The specter of the Blue Screen of Death is haunting IT admins this summer, apparently.
The specific details: the latest July Windows security update might just send you into a BitLocker recovery screen if you’re using the encryption feature. Microsoft itself alerted users to the possibility via a support page message, spotted by BleepingComputer. The update affects all current versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11, as well as Windows Server installations going all the way back to 2008.
