A global Microsoft outage interrupts airplanes, banking, trade, and other businesses.
The outage caused large-scale disruptions across airports in India, US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and major European cities. The London Stock Exchange and the National Health Service also reported fallouts.
New York: Microsoft users globally, including many in India, reported massive outages in services on Friday, with outage tracking website Downdetector showing users flagging disruptions across various services.
The outage wrought havoc on global computer systems, grounding flights, making ATMs dysfunctional, derailing television broadcasts and impacting telecommunications.
According to media reports, more than 160 flights in different airports in India were affected due to the outage.
Passengers were left facing delays at check-ins, and boarding, and had to deal even with the cancellation of several flights, officials said.
As many as five Indian airline carriers — Air India, IndiGo, Akasa, SpiceJet, and Vistara — announced disruptions to their booking systems on Friday, forcing them to switch to manual mode. They urged flyers to reach out to their respective airlines for information on the flights.
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