Microsoft’s biggest crash in history: Window closed
Microsoft’s biggest crash in history had a ripple effect, affecting everything from airlines to the New York Stock Exchange.
A computer glitch affected major services around the world, disrupting public transportation connections, delaying international flights and restricting the operations of healthcare facilities and companies.
Microsoft’s biggest crash in history at least in part, to a software update issued by Crowdstrike on Microsoft Windows systems.
And this the main problem, most of the world’s PC systems run on the Windows system.
The U.S. cybersecurity firm told customers early Friday that engineers were addressing the problem.
Microsoft said the “underlying cause” of the outage “has been fixed,” adding that the residual impact still affects some services.
“We are conducting additional mitigations to provide relief,” the technology company said in an X release. Some services have been restored, but others are still dealing with outages.
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Microsoft’s biggest crash in history: Window closed
Microsoft’s biggest crash in history generated failures in global banks, medical services and the critical infrastructure of many global companies.
Medical service providers, including the UK’s National Health Service and one of Europe’s largest healthcare facilities in northern Germany, have been choked by IT service delays.
Meanwhile, banks, broadcasters and supermarkets in Australia, New Zealand and the UK were affected, including ABC News and Sky News.
Amid Microsoft’s biggest crash in history, scenes of nervous travelers filled the halls of major airports on Friday as U.S. and other international airlines in Europe, Asia and the Middle East had to delay and cancel flights.
For this July 19, there were about 110,000 scheduled commercial flights worldwide, according to preliminary data from Cirium, an aviation analytics firm.
As of 6 a.m. ET, there were 1,390 flights canceled worldwide.
But, in addition, Microsoft’s biggest drop in history affected U.S. markets; markets posted a down opening Friday morning after a global computer outage hurt tech stocks, which were already experiencing a steep decline this week.
The Social Security Administration closed its local offices to the public Friday following the global computer glitch that knocked out numerous services.
The agency said in a statement that it expects longer wait times for the national 800 number, and some online services may be unavailable.
