
The outage caused thousands of flight cancellations and delays across the world, while banking, healthcare and payment systems were also affected.
The cyber-security firm CrowdStrike has apologised after an update to its antivirus software - which is designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from malicious attacks – instead caused a global outage. But, while the software bug has been fixed, experts say the manual reboot of each affected Microsoft computer will take a huge amount of work – and may take some time.
I can mark myself safe of the issue because I am using only Linux (no Windows nor macOS) for more than a decade (10 years). The slow deatch of Windows may increase its speed after this issue. Meantime you can always stop Windows updates from breaking your PC, again and again. Is it time for you to switch from Windows to Linux. No operating system is perfect (Linux included) but, at least for me, Linux is much better that Windows has ever been.