Microsoft Windows
faced a
global outage
yesterday bringing the world to a halt. Users were stuck at a restart loop with their laptop screen showing the ‘
Blue Screen of Death errors
’. The widespread disruption, which impacted millions of users worldwide, temporarily crippled essential business tools such as Microsoft 365, Teams, and Azure cloud services.
The company has resolved the issue now.
Anand Mahindra
, the chairman of Mahindra Group and a well-known figure in the Indian business world, has shared an image on X (formerly known as
) depicting outage’s effect on the world.
Mahindra shared an image showing two uniformed men riding on the backs of buffaloes. The post was captioned “The pace of global commercial activity right now—post the #microsoft #crowdstrike outage….”.
How users reacted to Anand Mahindra’s post
Commenting on Mahindra’s post, a user wrote “Just shows how dependent we are on digital currencies and computers 😅 It’s like the world will come to a halt if something goes wrong with the internet and computers/ AI systems 😲”.
“This outage highlights our heavy reliance on a handful of companies. It's a real concern and a wake-up call for the world to develop alternatives for every critical service. Diversification is key to resilience,” wrote one user. “Good reminder that technology has a breaking point, too”, another added.
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