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New Windows Recovery Mode Aims to Prevent Repeat of Crowdstrike Outage

'Quick Machine Recovery' mode will let IT administrators remotely fix a Windows machine even if it's unable to boot. Microsoft also teases a public preview of a security layer without kernel access.

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