Delta’s CEO has decried Microsoft as a particularly vulnerable platform while implying Apple is much more sound.
When a faulty update crippled the internet in mid-July, causing everything from point-of-purchase to flight management to grind to a halt, many companies began looking for someone to blame. And that blame largely fell on Microsoft and security firm CrowdStrke.
When a faulty update crippled the internet in mid-July, causing everything from point-of-purchase to flight management to grind to a halt, many companies began looking for someone to blame. And that blame largely fell on Microsoft and security firm CrowdStrke.
Some of the loudest affected companies were flight companies, such as American Airlines, United, and Delta, who needed ground flights until their systems came back online.
In a new interview on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’, Delta CEO Ed Bastian has spoken out against Microsoft while simultaneously praising Apple. When asked if Delta would reconsider how it used Microsoft in the future, Bastian had this to say: