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.

(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.

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.

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 says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage. It’s the first time that a number has been put on the incident, which is still causing ...

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 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.

Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent. We can bring you some more from Microsoft's latest statement now. The 8.5 million Windows devices affected by the IT outage accounts for less than 1% of all machines ...

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." ...

Businesses and services are continuing to grapple with the aftermath of Friday's global IT outage, and although disruption across most industries appears to be easing, it's likely the impact will ...