Part of Microsoft's problem is that right before the CrowdStrike outage, there was an outage of some large Microsoft services, making the two look connected. It

Part of Microsoft's problem is that right before the CrowdStrike outage, there was an outage of some large Microsoft services, making the two look connected. It didn't help that a lot of Microsoft support consultants also ran CrowdStrike laptops, getting affected right when customers were. But this is quite typical. Microsoft generally doesn't direct blame to anyone (anyone non-malicious at least) but in this case I feel like they really should.