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Delta is suing CrowdStrike over July’s global IT outage.

Reuters reports Delta filed a lawsuit Friday over the July 19th crash, blaming CrowdStrike for having “forced untested and faulty updates to its customers, causing more than 8.5 million Microsoft Windows-based computers around the world to crash.”

Delta’s CEO already called out Microsoft and CrowdStrike during a CNBC interview (included below), saying, “When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?,” while Microsoft said Delta ignored offers to help recover faster.

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