CrowdStrike outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says
Microsoft says the CrowdStrike-related IT outage affected approximately 8.5 million Windows devices.
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The scale of the disruption demonstrates the systemic risk posed by failures in widely used digital infrastructure.
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