Microsoft outage: Users get blue screen of death on using Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft outage affected airline companies, media firms, banks and telecoms firms around the world on Friday morning. The outage has been resolved now.

Published By: Shweta Ganjoo | Published: Jul 19, 2024, 01:55 PM (IST)

Highlights

  • Microsoft's services witnessed a global outage on Friday morning.
  • The outage affected Microsoft 365 apps and services globally.
  • Microsoft's outage has been resolved now.

Microsoft outage: Microsoft's services witnessed a major outage on Friday morning. The outage affected Microsoft 365 apps and services, which in turn disrupted functioning of airlines, media companies, banks and telecoms companies across the globe. Also Read: Free Apps Worth Installing on Every Phone

According to the details shared by Microsoft, the outage took place owing to a 'configuration change in a portion of Azure backend workloads', which in turn caused an interruption between storage and compute resources that resulted in connectivity failures that affected downstream Microsoft 365 services dependent on these connections. Also Read: Microsoft outage 2.0? Several Microsoft 365 apps, Azure services become inaccessible

Who was affected by the Microsoft Outage?

As mentioned before, airlines, banks, telecom companies, hospitals and basically everyone using Microsoft's services globally was affected by the global outage.

-- According to reports, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Allegiant Air grounded their flights owing to the outage.

-- The outage also affected media, banks and telecoms companies in Australia, while Ryanair, which is Europe's largest airline by passenger carrier warned passengers of disruptions affecting all its network.

-- In India, the Microsoft outage affected flight operations of several major airlines including Akasa Airlines, Air India, SpiceJet and Indigo at the Delhi and Mumbai airports.

Akasa Airlines:

Indigo Airlines:

Spicejet

Delhi Airport

Air India

Microsoft outage resolved

Microsoft, via a post on X (formerly Twitter), announced that it is witnessing a gradual improvement in its services. "

Multiple services are continuing to see improvements in availability as our mitigation actions progress," the company wrote in its post.

The company has also updated its Service Health page to reflect that all its services are working fine now.

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