Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft's legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses

Delta Air Lines has retained Boies Schiller Flexner to explore recovering up to $500M in operational losses from the July 19 CrowdStrike outage that crashed Windows systems worldwide, with Microsoft potentially implicated as well; while no lawsuit has been filed, CrowdStrike’s liability limits could constrain recovery, and Delta faces ongoing U.S. DOT scrutiny after nearly 7,000 flight cancellations and extensive passenger reimbursement claims.