Absolutely correct. Unfortunately, there is no other solution to this issue. If the laptops were powered down overnight, there might be a stroke of luck. However, this will be one of the most challenging recoveries in IT history, making it a highly unpleasant experience.

Azure issue and CS issues are separate incidents. They are not related.

Indeed this is different , This is world wide and it does not even only affect Windows pcs but with some friends of mine Linux and Macs are in trouble 2 , this is not ur Windows Vista BS problem etc

use windows recovery to boot into safe mode and update latest crowdstrike. That is the only option at this time.

Please at least an archive link. That website is trash.