A GLOBAL tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
A GLOBAL tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday .'We currently estimate that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,' it said in the blog.
'While the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services,' Microsoft said in its blog post.CrowdStrike has helped develop a solution that will help Microsoft's Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix, Microsoft said, adding that it was working with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, sharing information about the effects Microsoft was seeing across the industry.
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