Microsoft Windows outage: Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Friday, said that the government was in touch with Microsoft amid the global outage that has affected airlines, the stock market, banks and other services across the world.
In the first reaction by the Centre on the global outage, Vaishnaw took to X and stated, “MEITY is in touch with Microsoft and its associates regarding the global outage. The reason for this outage has been identified and updates have been released to resolve the issue. CERT is issuing a technical advisory. NIC network is not affected.”
The IT Minister emphasised that the National Informatics Centre (NIC) “is not effected”.
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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory in the wake of the Microsoft Windows outage.
Services across multiple sectors were affected worldwide today due to a technical problem at the US tech giant Microsoft and American cyber security company Crowdstrike.
Millions of Microsoft Windows users experienced the ‘Blue Screen of Death’ error that caused their computers to shut down or restart.
Microsoft said the preliminary root cause was a “configuration change” in a portion of its Azure backend workloads. It caused interruption between storage and compute resources which resulted in connectivity failures that affected downstream Microsoft 365 services dependent on these connections, the company said.
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In India, aviation and banks were among the first sectors to be hit by the outage. Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru faced disruptions with airlines like Akasa Air, IndiGo and SpiceJet opting for manual check-ins and handwritten boarding passes.