Tech Desk
Jul 21, 2024
A significant disruption in Microsoft's cloud services affected businesses and services worldwide, including India and the US.
The Microsoft outage delayed several airlines' schedules and flight operations around the world for hours on Thursday and Friday.
Moreover, businesses, hospitals and banks were also among the most impacted domains by this faulty software update, not discounting the payment systems that were also improperly working worldwide.
Read more: Microsoft global outage grounds flights and disrupts services worldwide
Health services in Britain, as well as Germany, suffered due to the crash causing chaos across Germany's healthcare sector, with the main university hospitals in cities such as Kiel and Lübeck having to close and cancel all non-emergency operations.
The CEO of CrowdStrike, the firm that caused the whole IT chaos, apologised for the disruption and said a fix had been issued that could take some time before all systems were back up and running.
Some airline services have already begun to resume the flights previously cancelled due to the outage. Hong Kong International Airport has resumed normal operations, according to Chinese media.
Many businesses that remained inactive in the wake of the disrupted IT sphere are now dealing with missed orders that might take days to resolve.
Meanwhile, JP Morgan Chase, the biggest bank in the US, said it was working to restore ATM services.
