IT outage: Microsoft deploys hundreds of engineers, experts to restore services

NEW DELHI: US software giant Microsoft has deployed hundreds of engineers and experts with its customers to restore their services after an outage caused by its cyber security partner CrowdStrike, the company said in a blog. According to Microsoft, 8.5 million devices across the world were impacted by the outage caused by an update from CrowdStrike on July 18.

“Deploying hundreds of Microsoft engineers and experts to work directly with customers to restore services,” Microsoft said in a blog post on July 20.