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Microsoft Reveals CrowdStrike Outage Affects 8.5 Million Windows Devices

BY MILCAH TANIMU

Microsoft has announced that at least 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by the recent CrowdStrike outage. David Weston, Microsoft’s Vice President for enterprise and OS security, shared this information in a blog post, noting that this figure represents less than 1 percent of all Windows machines globally.

Despite the relatively small percentage of affected devices, the outage had extensive and global repercussions. It disrupted banks, shops, brokerage firms, train networks, and other critical services. Airlines worldwide even paused flights due to the incident.

Weston emphasized the broad economic and societal impacts of the outage, pointing out that many enterprises using CrowdStrike’s software provide essential services.

The outage was linked to the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, whose software is widely used to protect against hackers and external breaches. The issue resulted in crashes for machines running the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Microsoft 365 provided an update on its X account, indicating that multiple services were seeing improvements as mitigation actions progressed. However, users might still face difficulties accessing various Microsoft 365 apps and services, including Microsoft Fabric, Teams, Purview, Defender, SharePoint, and OneNote.

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