Microsoft said Saturday it estimates that worldwide about 8.5 million computers were disabled by the outage caused by an update from the Texas based cyber security company, CrowdStrike on Friday.

8.5 million devices were confirmed affected by the CrowdStrike outage, but Microsoft says that's only a subset.

The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a blog post.

Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage ... CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices." The post by David Weston ...

The 8.5 million Windows devices affected by the IT outage accounts for less than 1% of all machines worldwide. Microsoft says that the "broad economic and societal impacts" shows the use of ...

Microsoft Says About 8.5 Million of Its Devices Affected by CrowdStrike-Related Outage (Reuters) - A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike ...

Microsoft said Saturday it estimates that worldwide about 8.5 million computers were disabled by the outage caused by an update from the Texas based cyber security company, CrowdStrike on Friday.

Around 8.5 million devices — less than 1 percent of Windows machines globally — were affected by the recent CrowdStrike outage, according to a Microsoft blog post by David Weston, the company ...

Microsoft said Saturday it estimates that worldwide about 8.5 million computers were disabled by the outage caused ... CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5 million Windows devices." ...

(Reuters) - A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday.