It’s the first time that a number has been put on the glitch that is still causing problems around the world.
Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage.
The post by David Weston, vice-president at the firm, says this number is less than 1% of all Windows machines worldwide, but that "the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services". The fall out from the IT glitch has been enormous and was already one of the worst cyber-incidents in history.
The massive outage has also prompted warnings by cyber-security experts and agencies around the world about a wave of opportunistic hacking attempts linked to the IT outage.
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