The global tech outage caused by a faulty update to CrowdStrike’s security software crashed computers powered by Microsoft Windows on Friday, causing airlines to delay flights and doctors to postpone surgeries.US Fortune 500 companies excluding Microsoft face $5.4 billion in losses thanks to the CrowdStrike outage last week and Microsoft’s losses will add hundreds of millions of dollars more to the total.While tech junkies knew the name CrowdStrike prior to the outage, most people did not but they knew the name Microsoft. Should Microsoft compensate the clients for the losses?

