{"id":61806,"date":"2024-07-21T15:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices"},"modified":"2024-07-21T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T16:21:00","slug":"microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Says Global Tech Glitch Affects 8.5 Million Windows Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Telecommunications companies, banks, and airlines all over the world were impacted by a global failure of Windows-based equipment that occurred early on Friday morning.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>US company CrowdStrike confirmed that the global outage had occurred due to its update for the Falcon Sensor cybersecurity application.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We currently estimate that CrowdStrike\u2019s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines. 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US company CrowdStrike confirmed that the global outage had occurred due to its update for the Falcon Sensor cybersecurity application. &#8220;We currently estimate that CrowdStrike\u2019s update affected 8.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-61806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft Says Global Tech Glitch Affects 8.5 Million Windows Devices - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Telecommunications companies, banks, and airlines all over the world were impacted by a global failure of Windows-bas ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft Says Global Tech Glitch Affects 8.5 Million Windows Devices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Telecommunications companies, banks, and airlines all over the world were impacted by a global failure of Windows-bas ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-21T15:05:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-21T16:21:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/07\/sm_1721566232.108797.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Microsoft Says Global Tech Glitch Affects 8.5 Million Windows Devices\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-21T15:05:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-21T16:21:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices\"},\"wordCount\":144,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/07\/sm_1721566232.108797.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/microsoft-says-global-tech-glitch-affects-8-5-million-windows-devices\",\"name\":\"Microsoft Says Global Tech Glitch Affects 8.5 Million Windows Devices - 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