Crowdstrike, Microsoft and 'Blue Screen of Death': What's the outage all about?

Microsoft 365 is facing a global outage. A Crowdstrike update caused PCs with Windows 10 to crash. Now, Indian users are in the same boat as their counterparts in the US, Australia and other countries

It provides advanced cybersecurity solutions for Windows PCs

PCs are stuck on the recovery screen with this blue message, “It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly. If you’d like to restart and try again, choose Restart my PC below."

Travellers were given hand-written air tickets in India. X (formerly Twitter) users shared the update along with pictures of the ticket

The Guardian reported that banking institutions, supermarkets and media companies reported problems while a few TV studios and radio studios went offline

Reports say the cause behind the problem is yet to be ascertained and the investigation is underway

As reported by All India Radio, the company said it is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon sensor

PTI reported that the tech giant said its cloud services outage in the Central US region has been resolved