July 19 (Reuters) – Companies across several industries including airlines, banking and media were hit on Friday by a global tech outage tied to Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Azure cloud platform and a software issue at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O).
The issue impacted computers running the Windows operating system and CrowdStrike software. CrowdStrike said it was working with impacted customers and had deployed a fix for the issue, which stemmed from an update it issued for Windows users.
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