Microsoft said Saturday it estimates that worldwide about 8.5 million computers were disabled by the outage caused by an update from the Texas based cyber security company, CrowdStrike on Friday.

(Reuters) - A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday.

8.5 million devices were confirmed affected by the CrowdStrike outage, but Microsoft says that's only a subset.

The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a blog post.

Around 8.5 million devices — less than 1 percent of Windows machines globally — were affected by the recent CrowdStrike outage, according to a Microsoft blog post by David Weston, the company ...

Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent. We can bring you some more from Microsoft's latest statement now. The 8.5 million Windows devices affected by the IT outage accounts for less than 1% of all machines ...

Microsoft said Saturday it estimates that worldwide about 8.5 million computers were disabled by the outage caused by an update from the Texas based cyber security company, CrowdStrike on Friday.

Microsoft (MSFT), which is helping customers recover said Saturday in a blog post: "we currently estimate that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5 million Windows devices." ...

Businesses and services are continuing to grapple with the aftermath of Friday's global IT outage, and although disruption across most industries appears to be easing, it's likely the impact will ...