It's been almost a year since CrowdStrike crashed Windows PCs and disrupted businesses worldwide. New changes to the Windows security architecture will make those outages less likely and easier to recover from.

Microsoft is using its Microsoft Virus Initiative to improve competitor deployment practices, bringing a Windows endpoint security platform to private preview and launching quick machine recovery as part of a series of Windows security and resilience moves.

“This Windows configuration update addresses an issue in Windows that can cause the scan for Windows updates to stop responding,” Microsoft said, adding that the issue impacts those Windows 11 users who have yet to install the May Windows non-security preview update, KB5058499, or later.