Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines (David Weston/The Official Microsoft Blog)

David Weston / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines  —  On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally.  Although this was not a Microsoft incident …