diff --git a/lib/crewai/pyproject.toml b/lib/crewai/pyproject.toml
index 0133eaffa2..a92a957c14 100644
--- a/lib/crewai/pyproject.toml
+++ b/lib/crewai/pyproject.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "uv~=0.9.13",
     "aiosqlite~=0.21.0",
     "pyyaml~=6.0",
-    "lancedb>=0.29.2,<0.30.1",
+    "lancedb>=0.29.2,<0.30.1; sys_platform != 'win32'",
+    "qdrant-edge-py>=0.6.0; sys_platform == 'win32'",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/memory/unified_memory.py b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/memory/unified_memory.py
index d879bace0c..43b6edd246 100644
--- a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/memory/unified_memory.py
+++ b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/memory/unified_memory.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import sys
 from concurrent.futures import Future, ThreadPoolExecutor
 import contextvars
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ class Memory(BaseModel):
         description="LLM for analysis (model name or BaseLLM instance).",
     )
     storage: Annotated[StorageBackend | str, PlainValidator(_passthrough)] = Field(
-        default="lancedb",
+        default="qdrant-edge" if sys.platform == "win32" else "lancedb",
         description="Storage backend instance or path string.",
     )
     embedder: Any = Field(