AirAsia's Tony Fernandes wants Microsoft compensation for the CrowdStrike outage: 'If I delay my flight, you would come after me for a refund'

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On Friday, a flawed update from U.S. cybersecurity company CrowdStrike crashed Windows PCs all over the world, with computers displaying the dreaded "blue screen of death." The outage hit global airlines particularly hard, disrupting thousands of flights as staff scrambled to get systems back online. Some airlines, like U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines, are still struggling.

Tony Fernandes, CEO of Capital A, owner of low-cost carrier AirAsia, says he's "100%" asking for compensation from Microsoft, the developer of the Windows operating system.