Did you turn it off and on? Microsoft says some users solved the CrowdStrike problem after rebooting up to 15 times.

• A mass IT outage is disrupting operations at banks, retailers, airports, and other organizations.
• Microsoft said some people rebooted their devices up to 15 times to troubleshoot the issue.
• A cybersecurity expert shared advice for fixing devices affected by the Microsoft outage.

Microsoft has a solution for its mass IT outage: lots and lots of reboots.

The outage began disrupting industries on Thursday and continued into Friday morning, according to a post by Microsoft's cloud platform Azure.