New Delhi: Microsoft’s latest technical breakdown in the cloud services has caused chaos and mayhem across the world. According to tech reports, the latest outage has impacted the Microsoft Team, Windows 365 and OneDrive among other services provided by the tech giant.
Downdetector, an online outage platform has received over 1000 complaints of the failure of Microsoft 365 amongst others which has impacted users globally. In the latest report of the online platform, 74% of the complaints concern the functioning of OneDrive while 16% reported server-related issues and 10% struggled to access their Outlook emails.
Microsoft assures users in its latest post on X!
To keep things calm, Microsoft has come out in the open and given its users globally that the company is “investigating” the technical failure which is causing so many problems to its users globally.
We’re still observing a positive trend in service availability while we continue to redirect the impacted traffic. Additionaly info can be found in the admin center under MO821132 and https://t.co/Htn4qQEnsp
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) July 19, 2024
Furthermore, in its latest X (formerly Twitter), Microsoft has said “More details can be found within the admin centre under MO821132…” The company further stated that it is trying to mitigate the issues and the users can expect the “relief” in their systems within 4-5 hours. Meanwhile, the company has asked the impacted traffic to be redirected towards healthy systems to keep up with the workflow around the world.
Chaos at the Airports…
It has been a day of partying for the corporate crowd with many posting online about the “Blue Screen” holiday in the companies.
Holiday mood on by Microsoft 😊
Blue screen of death reported at multiple companies – Crowd Strike attackAre you also facing ??
Guys it’s a global issue from Microsoft #Bluescreen #Microsoft pic.twitter.com/lf2LAHmVFf
— Saurabh kumar (@Saurabhk0096) July 19, 2024
#Microsoft #Windows #crowdstrike
IT Employees right now 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/CpW6kbBzKr
— Ex Bhakt (@exbhakt_) July 19, 2024
However, for air passengers, it has been a day to remember with chaos and mayhem at the airports. According to various videos that went online long queues of people were seen waiting to get their boarding passes. There was a complete breakdown of technical systems with many flights like Indigo and Akasa issuing their advisories to the passengers.
Our systems are currently impacted by a Microsoft outage, which is also affecting other companies. During this time booking, check-in, access to your boarding pass, and some flights may be impacted. We appreciate your patience.
— IndiGo (@IndiGo6E) July 19, 2024
#TravelUpdate: Due to infrastructure issues with our service provider, some of our online services, including booking, check-in and manage booking services will be temporarily unavailable. Currently we are following manual check-in and boarding processes at the airports and hence…
— Akasa Air (@AkasaAir) July 19, 2024
Amidst this chaos, many people were feeling lucky they received their first handwritten boarding passes due to this technical failure.
