CrowdStrike's Disastrous Update Causes Outage Affecting 8.5 Million Devices
A botched update from CrowdStrike caused a massive global outage on Friday, hitting around 8.5 million Windows devices, according to a Microsoft blog post. The update led to blue screens of death, bringing down systems at hospitals, airlines, banks, and other major services. Only Windows machines were affected.
Although most of the issues were fixed by Friday afternoon, Microsoft and CrowdSt