A massive outage at Microsoft has taken 8.5 million computers worldwide offline.
The company said the software update had impacted global IT systems.
The failure of devices running the Windows operating system was associated with an update to the CrowdStrike antivirus, Microsoft emphasized in a statement.
The outage affected less than 1 percent of Windows computers and had widespread economic impact.
CrowdStrike antivirus software has been used by numerous enterprises that support a variety of mission-critical services.
Therefore, the failure of Microsoft led to the suspension of work, airports, banks, a number of companies and equipment around the world.
