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European Commission denies responsibility for massive Microsoft IT outage
Last week's outage caused thousands of flights to be delayed or cancelled, leaving passengers stranded at airports.
The outage, which affected 8.5 million computers running Windows and using CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity software, caused flights to be grounded, businesses to be unable to process card payments, and hospitals and clinics to cancel operations. A Microsoft spokesperson yesterday suggested to US media that a 2009 agreement with the European Commission is to blame for the widespread IT failure last Friday. The European Commission spokesperson hit back at the accusations today, telling Euronews that "Microsoft is free to decide on its business model.
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