Microsoft attributes the global outage to CrowdStrike

The company said CrowdStrike was behind the massive outage that companies worldwide faced.

From Thursday, July 18, companies had started noticing an issue in their IT systems as CrowdStrike released an update, confirmed Satya Nadella, CEO of and Chairman at Microsoft. He confirmed that the massive Microsoft outage globally was because of the update of CrowdStrike. Early in the morning on Friday, July 19, the disruption of Microsoft Windows machines disabled tons of businesses across the globe; for this, Microsoft blamed CrowdStrike, a security software vendor.

CrowdStrike behind Microsoft outage.

It has now been confirmed that CrowdStrike was behind the huge Microsoft outage. On Friday, Microsoft Windows machines crippled many businesses worldwide, and the company blamed the security software vendor, CrowdStrike. Businesses globally reported IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers.

Microsoft outage linked to a software update.

The massive Microsoft outage worldwide is linked to a software update from the famous cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The update affected computers running Microsoft Windows at firms and organizations across industries globally. The sectors it affected include airlines, media companies, banks, railway networks, retailers, and brokerage houses.

Technical glitches lead to significant problems globally.

The security update that caused the outage created major problems for sectors worldwide, affecting airlines, banks, and emergency services. Some of the biggest airports worldwide reported flight cancellations due to technical glitches. In the US, 911 services were impacted. Several UK doctors reported on X about the issues in the country’s nodal National Health Services.

What did Microsoft say on the outage?

In a post on X’s Windows 365 service status page, Microsoft said, “We’re aware of an issue with Windows 365 Cloud PCs caused by a recent update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor software. This is being communicated under WP821561 in the admin center. To fix this, users may restore their Windows 365 Cloud PC to a known good state prior to the release of the update (July 19, 2024) as documented here: Enterprise – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/enterprise/restore-overview Business.” They added, “CrowdStrike is communicating to its customers directly through their support portal, and they also have a blog post providing more information.”