Some of the headaches and logjams caused by the global IT outage people have been suffering through on Friday have mercifully started to ease as we move into the evening hours. But as my colleague Streiff reported this morning, it was something of a mess for millions of Microsoft users around the globe hoping to see the back of a long week:
Millions of users of Microsoft products found themselves without service Friday as a security update pushed out by Crowdstrike went terribly wrong. Across the globe, the outage knocked out operations for banks, trains, airlines, and emergency services.
Windows computers and tablets crashed in countries from the U.S. to China and Australia, with reports of forced restarts of devices spreading across social media throughout the day.
The problem appeared to be caused by an update from CrowdStrike, Microsoft employees and outside technology…
