 it a bit of happy we have some new numbers this morning as to the breadth of the tech outage crowd strike says that eight-and-a-half million windows devices were impacted that's globally it says a significant number of those are back online but no farm number there one of the biggest hurdles has been that fixing this mess has been slow and complicated and requires manually working on each affected system so it's welcome news that crowd strike now says it's figured out a way to accelerate that process