A dummies guide to the great CrowdStrike outage
By
Binu Mathew
Microsoft-Crowdstrike Outage: This Friday, a global tech hiccup threw the world into chaos, hitting office work, airports and industries of all shapes and sizes. Wondering how? It all traces back to Microsoft Azure and a sneaky software update from CrowdStrike that decided to stir things up. Perhaps, one of the most noticeable aspects of the outage was the blue screen of death or BSOD – a critical error screen on Microsoft Windows indicating a system crash. Thankfully, CrowdStrike didn’t sit back and swiftly fixed the issue.