Blue Wings | Microsoft outage: 6 industries affected by the CrowdStrike update fail
Editor’s note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage . Windows PCs around the entire planet crashed this morning because of a CrowdStrike update glitch . You may have heard about it. But what you may not have heard about is just how many services have been affected by the biggest global IT outage in years. It’s not quite a Y2K level of apocalyptic meltdown, but everything from airline travel to broadcasting, 911 calls, and even surgeries, have been troubled by the CrowdStrike outage. Here is just a partial list of things that have been brought down by the CrowdStrike glitch. Airlines Tweet may have been deleted Perhaps one of the most striking sectors to be disrupted by the CrowdStrike outage was the airline industry. Flights were grounded globally on Friday morning, with major U.S. airlines like Delta and Allegiant halting operations alongside airlines from countries like France, Spain, Aus...