It's been over a year now since the infamous CrowdStrike incident that put both CrowdStrike itself and Microsoft on blast over the inability of millions of computers around the world to recover from a ...

QMR is Microsoft’s emerging tool to resurrect Windows after updates break bad. Here’s what it does and how to take it for a test drive. A noteworthy new feature is starting to make its way into ...

Microsoft offers an easy method to recover Windows devices when encountering fatal issues that prevent them from booting up – Quick Machine Recovery. It searches the cloud server for resolutions and ...

Microsoft's controversial and delayed Recall feature will become available slightly earlier than expected. In a blog post on Friday, the company said it is rolling out an early version of the tool to ...

In context: Microsoft is introducing a new safeguard for Windows 11 users: Quick Machine Recovery (QMR), a feature designed to address one of the most frustrating scenarios in personal computing – ...

Quick Machine Recovery was introduced in November 2024 as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative at Ignite 2024, in response to a massive July 2024 outage caused by a buggy CrowdStrike ...

A couple of weeks ago, while lamenting Microsoft’s poorly articulated Previous Versions story, I alluded to an earlier post in which I detailed my attempts to reproduce Mac OS X’s Time Machine feature ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

QMR is designed to keep devices running by fixing boot problems directly from WinRE. Instead of waiting for manual, in‑person troubleshooting, it automatically identifies and repairs critical startup ...