Widespread outage disrupts flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world

Published 2024-07-19
A widespread Microsoft outage disrupted flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world on Friday. Escalating disruptions continued hours after the technology company said it was gradually fixing an issue affecting access to Microsoft 365 apps and services. The website DownDectector, which tracks user-reported internet outages, recorded growing outages in services at Visa, ADT security and Amazon, and airlines including American Airlines and Delta.

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  • @RB-jq6gh
    I woke up today & my heart was still pumping blood around my system.
  • @Scott_T_
    So, a company that builds software to protect computers against cyberattacks, has deployed a software update that behaves exactly like a cyberattack. Got it. So how do you apply the fix if you can't load Windows? I guess just tell AI to fix the problem.
  • Now-a-days businesses all use cloud technology because it's suppose to be more cost efficent, and these businesses all want to save money. I'm not so sure it meets that objective.
  • @ChrisGR93_TxS
    im not an expert by any means but not that naive! you don't change anything on something that works! Microsoft and unfortunately a lot of people think constant updates are good. Stacking patches on top of another is not a fix. what i call a fix? Provide your costumers a read only basic windows structure that you never have or be able to manipulate so if anything ever happen, you'll always be up and running in a safe basic windows environment with what each company/user decides is needed for tools and drivers. Let a different partition handle all the crappy so called "updates" and if something go wrong at least you would be able to go and change that individual patch/update/driver/file. Patch on top of another patch till something breaks and have reasons to do more patches is not reliable and will never be. They didn't want to go that route and now they will pay the consequences.
  • No wonder. We're living in the era of enshittification. Why properly develop and test software where you can offload this task to AI?
  • @ELYYY99
    It’s not normal to have computer systems and software running for hours in on at a time.
  • @nutrioh_app
    KInda says the world should not give so much power to Bill Gates. Today we realize how deep the dude's hands go. Not acceptable.
  • No wonder. Why properly develop and test software if you can offload this task to AI?