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Microsoft 365 outage: Memes make rounds on social media amid global outage

Updated on: 19 July,2024 12:57 PM IST  |  Mumbai
mid-day online correspondent |

The Microsoft 365 outage affected several services - from airlines to stock exchanges, but it also unleashed a meme fest on social media platform 'X'. Here are a select few that tickled our funny bone

Microsoft 365 outage: Memes make rounds on social media amid global outage

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Amid a global Microsoft 365 outage on Friday due to CrowdStrike, work came to a standstill across offices. As employees were compelled to sit-back due to the blue screens on their laptops and computers, memes flooded social media platforms celebrating the outage. 


Many let their creative juices out with the memes. Here are a few memes that tickled our funny bone - 



However, the Microsoft 365 outage has so far affected airline services, London stock exchange, news rooms, banks, hospitals and more.  

Several airlines issued advisories addressing the technical snag and asked passengers to refrain from making multiple attempts at ticket booking during the Microsoft 365 outage.

Meanwhile, the IT ministry is in touch with Microsoft regarding global outage, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday, adding that NIC network is not affected.

In a post on X, IT Minister Vaishnaw said that the reason for this outage has been identified and updates have been released to resolve the issue.
CERT is issuing a technical advisory, he wrote.

While several banks faced issues amid the outage, SBI systems are not affected by Microsoft outage, says chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara. Similarly, leading bourse National Stock Exchange (NSE) also reported it has not been impacted by the global outage of Microsoft systems amid reports of disruptions in functioning of stock exchanges in several countries.

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