Delta Airlines to rethink Microsoft in wake of CrowdStrike outage [Video]

Discussing the airline’s $500 million lawsuit against Microsoft and CrowdStrike, Delta CEO Ed Bastian framed the incident as a violation of ‘priority access to the Delta ecosystem,’ saying Delta would rethink its reliance on ‘the most fragile platform’ in tech.

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In the wake of the widespread outage caused by a defective update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity platform, Delta Airlines is among the first enterprises to come forward to demand compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the enormous losses caused by the interruption of its flights during the failure.

Delta, which was the airline most impacted by the outage, estimates damages to be around $500 million. 

Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC that the airline canceled over 5,000 flights due to the outage, adding that the company’s IT organization had to manually reset 40,000 servers.

That “half a billion dollars in five days” includes “lost revenue, but also tens of millions of dollars a day in compensation and …