Microsoft IT outage: Australian airlines, banks and supermarkets begin return to normal operations

IT support staff need to implement the fix in person, one computer at a time, experts have said

* Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks
* What is CrowdStrike and how did it cause a global Windows outage?
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Supermarkets, banks, airlines and industries across Australia are slowly recovering on Saturday morning from the massive global Windows outage caused by a CrowdStrike software update gone wrong, with experts warning it could take weeks to resolve.

On Friday morning, the CEO of the Texas-based cybersecurity company, George Kurtz, apologised for the outage, and said it was not a cyber-attack, but a software update issue on its cloud-based cybersecurity platform Falcon for Microsoft Windows. It had since been fixed.

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