Windows Changes Will Prevent Another CrowdStrike Incident And Remove Blue Screen Of Death

If you follow Microsoft news, you may have heard about the Windows Resiliency Initiative that started last year. While at first sight that sounds just a marketing-driven initiative to fill a row of buzzword bingo, it seems that Redmond has genuinely been cooking up quite a few changes to Windows in a bid to increase the operating system's security and its ability to recover when things go seriously wrong -- as was the case with last year's CrowdStrike incident.

Microsoft describes a good handful of incoming upgrades in a blog post, and probably the biggest one for the OS in general is that future anti-virus and security packages will no longer run in the kernel. Instead, they'll be moved to userspace. What that means is that AV/security software won't be able to crash the entire system if it encounters a hiccup, as it will no longer ...