Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 03:27am on 21 Jul 2024,Sunday Tech Today
A global tech outage caused by a software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, the company reported on Saturday. The disruption led to significant issues for air passengers worldwide, including delays and flight cancellations, as well as impacts on various industries from banking to media. Microsoft is working with CrowdStrike, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform to accelerate a fix for the affected Windows devices, which constitute less than one percent of all Windows machines.
