Asia Tech Wire (July 25) -- Microsoft has no plans to restrict U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike's access to Windows, according to Reuters.

Citing people familiar with the matter, a report on Wednesday said there is no sign that Microsoft plans to restrict Crowdstrike's access to the Windows operating system.

This comes after a problematic software update from Crowdstrike caused about 8.5 million Microsoft devices worldwide to go down.