A dummies guide to the great CrowdStrike outage | Technology News

This Friday, a global tech hiccup threw the world into chaos, hitting office work, airports and industries of all shapes and sizes. Wondering how? It all traces back to Microsoft Azure and a sneaky software update from CrowdStrike that decided to stir things up. Thankfully, CrowdStrike didn’t sit back and swiftly fixed the issue. Should you be freaking out? No. Unless you are using CrowdStrike’s services, you are in the clear. The chaos primarily hit systems running Windows with CrowdStrike software. So if that’s not you, go ahead and breathe…