Microsoft’s global outage on Friday had hit more than 8.5 million devices – less than 1% of all Windows users. However, the impact was huge.
Everyone knows about Microsoft’s global outage by now. Previously, we didn’t know exactly how many users were affected. But now we have a number – almost 8.5 million!
‘We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices or less than one percent of all Windows machines’ – Microsoft
Although 8.5 million is less than 1% of all Windows users worldwide, the economic impact of the outage is what makes it so severe.
