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- An IT outage linked to a CrowdStrike update hit computer systems around the world on Friday.
- Russia remained unaffected, however, crediting import substitution and sanctions resilience.
- Microsoft and other software providers wound down operations in Russia after the Ukraine invasion.
A huge IT outage linked to an update for Windows issued by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike disrupted computer systems across the globe on Friday.