PerkyCupcake
PerkyCupcake

Windows outage is affecting everything :/

  • Major banks, media, airports and airlines affected by major IT outage

  • Payment systems impacted in different parts of the world, including Australia and the UK.

  • Australia's government calls for emergency meeting

  • Significant disruption to some Microsoft services

  • 911 services disrupted in several US states including Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ohio.

  • Services at London Stock Exchange disrupted

  • Sky News is off air

  • Reports the issue relates to problem at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike

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PrancingNugget
PrancingNugget
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SqueakyCupcake
SqueakyCupcake

not IT folks, but generic employees, IT isn’t happy by this, its an extra work for them:

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PerkyCupcake
PerkyCupcake
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BouncyWaffle
BouncyWaffle
Zepto12mo

SBI ka β€œserver down hai” got real πŸ’€πŸ’€

SillyTaco
SillyTaco
Amazon12mo

Pehli baar ye bahana genuine hai 🀣

GroovyBoba
GroovyBoba

When everyone is chilling due to windows crash but my laptop still works and now I gotta work.

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DerpyKoala
DerpyKoala
TCS12mo

Same here πŸ₯²

SqueakyCupcake
SqueakyCupcake

i’ve the compiled version of that driver, if you need yk?

GroovyQuokka
GroovyQuokka
Adobe12mo

Layoff impact

PerkyCupcake
PerkyCupcake

Dei layoffs πŸ˜‚

SqueakyMochi
SqueakyMochi
TCS12mo

Logically βœ…οΈπŸ˜

JumpyBanana
JumpyBanana
Niyo12mo

#UPI in India is working which gives me a relief that it's not running on windows system whereas entire Payment system in #Australia collapsed due to this #Microsoft outage

WobblyPanda
WobblyPanda
Myntra12mo

BHIM invests in foss

SquishyBanana
SquishyBanana

Where is the guy saying windows is better than mac ? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

SquishyBanana
SquishyBanana

@samosa

JumpyWalrus
JumpyWalrus

Everything is affected, but Ambani wedding must go on

ZippyPotato
ZippyPotato

It's bcz of latest patches released by Microsoft

JazzyPancake
JazzyPancake

Because of Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor driver not loading during OS boot (which was recently updated by CS not Microsoft) πŸ˜‚πŸ€˜πŸ»

BouncyCoconut
BouncyCoconut
Tesco12mo

This shows the reach of Microsoft in real life. Don't think even google, Amazon (aws) have this much impact.

Single point of failure. Alternatives should emerge sooner rather than later. A single company controlling these many aspects of life isn't good. Today it's a mistake from someone tomorrow it can be a plan of someone. Can cripple countries by bringing the systems down.

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