Collapse – As the situation gradually returns to normal on Saturday, the giant announced the number of people affected.
8.5 million. That's how many Windows computers were affected by the disease on Friday global computer outage Which has disrupted airports, banks and many other services. “We currently believe that the update Crowd Strike “This issue affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows devices,” Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday.
The outage was caused by an update to CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity software, which turned out to be incompatible with the world’s most popular Windows operating system. “While the percentage is small, the significant economic and societal impacts observed reflect the use of CrowdStrike by businesses that run many critical services,” Microsoft said.
“Not within Microsoft's jurisdiction”
Several thousand Flights have been cancelled.While many hospitals, departments, factories, TV channels and others were disrupted, David Weston, vice president of the IT group, insisted in a blog post that the incident was “out of our hands”. From Microsoft He details the measures his company has taken, such as deploying hundreds of engineers (…) Read more in 20 minutes
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