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#MicrosoftDown: what caused ‘world’s worst IT failure’?

#MicrosoftDown: what caused ‘world’s worst IT failure’?

Plus - Covid Inquiry report exposes 'fatal strategic flaws' costing UK lives

Tech and Science Daily | The Standard · Rachelle Abbott

July 19, 20248m 32s

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Show Notes

The world’s IT infrastructure went into meltdown with many Microsoft cloud-based systems hobbled after a CrowdStrike cybersecurity Windows update. The Covid-19 inquiry’s bombshell report has found successive UK governments were totally unprepared for the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic, which killed over 235,000 Britons.

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