Microsoft’s Emergency Windows Update—Stop Blue Screen Of Death

Microsoft has issued an emergency update after users were hit by May’s mandatory security update breaking Windows. “Windows 10 might repeatedly display the BitLocker recovery screen at startup,” Microsoft confirmed, pointing any affected users the newly issued out of bounds update via its Update Catalog.

Windows Latest was first to note the escalating issue, noting that “the KB5058379 install starts, but ends up at ‘Enter the recovery key to get going again (Keyboard layout: US)’ screen, and there’s a text field to add the recovery key.”

There were some reports of the dreaded blue screen of death (BSOD) as well, albeit this was primarily a Bitlocker issue and only for Windows 10 users yet to upgrade. But those…