Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella breaks silence over Windows outage disrupting the world

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Friday reacted to the tech giant’s global outage which adversely affected flight operations, banks, stock exchanges, payment systems, and even emergency services.

The Microsoft CEO revealed that they are closely working with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide technical guidance and support to the users to safely bring their systems back on mode.

“Yesterday, CrowdStrike released an update that began impacting IT systems globally. We are aware of this issue and are working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online” Microsoft CEO wrote on X.

Yesterday, CrowdStrike released an update that began impacting IT systems globally. We are aware of this issue and are working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online.

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) July 19, 2024

Microsoft said that even though the underlying cause for the issue has been fixed, the residual impact of cybersecurity outages still continues to affect some Office 365 applications and services.

The antivirus software CrowdStrike also claimed that a fix has been deployed for a bug that caused this global IT outage that majorly flight operations leading to many delays and long queues.

Users are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error which is leading to unexpected system shutdowns or restarts.

"CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz posted on X.

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