Microsoft’s global sprawl comes under fire after historic outage

Microsoft’s global sprawl comes under fire after historic outage
Microsoft President Brad Smith testifies during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on June 13 in Washington. (Image: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
The Washington Post
By Cristiano Lima-Strong, Cat ZakrzewskiA cascading computer outage that grounded planes, stymied hospitals and disrupted critical public services exposed the depth of the global economy’s dependence on a single company: Microsoft.Regulators and lawmakers across the political spectrum raised alarm that the sprawling outage that knocked out Windows showcases the danger of so much power concentrating into one firm, which drives governments, businesses and critical infrastructure around the world.The system failure ricocheted across the glob...

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