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
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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.
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Many let their creative juices out with the memes. Here are a few memes that tickled our funny bone -
When everyone’s laptop is not working coz of Microsoft outage, but you’re the blessed one who’s not affected with this outage. 😭#microsoftoutage
— Jerry Jose (@jrryjs) July 19, 2024
My manager: pic.twitter.com/D2r8p1FeNa
Thank you #Microsoft 🫶🏻
— Neha 🌻 (@whonxj) July 19, 2024
IT Employees across the globe right now- pic.twitter.com/H0K00iDY1N
solid reason to log out early👩💻 #Microsoft #bluescreen #corporate #crash pic.twitter.com/ck5c9vsJ2c
— Nuv (@navdweeep) July 19, 2024
Me enjoying free time in the office after the Microsoft crash #Microsoft pic.twitter.com/4oh4oLaUo7
— Vivek Gautam (@Imvivek04) July 19, 2024
People enjoying long weekend in office #microsoft #windows #bluescreen microsoft blue screen pic.twitter.com/luyzExJRTa
— the9to5slaves (@the9to5slaves) July 19, 2024
Me to Microsoft who decided to crash laptops globally on Friday 🥳#Microsoft pic.twitter.com/itwE87Ownv
— Deviprasad Pandey (@Pandey_Jiii_) July 19, 2024
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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