A global outage linked to a software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has affected nearly 8.5 million of its devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday.
“We currently estimate that the CrowdStrike update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows PCs,” the company said in a blog post.
Microsoft said CrowdStrike helped develop a scalable solution that would help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate the fix, adding that the tech giant worked with both Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform to collaborate on the “most effective approaches.”
Air travelers around the world faced delays, cancellations and check-in headaches as airports and airlines were crippled by an IT outage that affected industries from banking to media companies.