Microsoft Windows Users worldwide are facing blue screen of death errors. Many users took to microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) to report the issue. Windows users are seeing blue screen errors on their screen where the laptop/PC is stuck on restart loop.
The outage has affected the operations of many airlines, banks, broadcasting and emergency services around the world. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on its service status page.
US-based security company CrowdStrike also said in a post on Reddit that the outage was the result of an ‘erroneous update’ which has now been rolled back. “We have had widespread reports of BSODs on Windows hosts, occurring on multiple sensor versions.” “(We) have identified content deployments related to this issue and reverted those changes,” he said in the post.
So it’s unclear whether the outage is related to a CrowdStrike issue or a Microsoft issue.

Microsoft Shutdown: Impact in India

The disruption in Microsoft services has affected industries around the world, including airlines, banks and others. Indian airlines including SpiceJet, Akasa Airlines and Air India Express. The Microsoft Cloud outage has resulted in flight cancellations and delays.
“We are currently experiencing a technical issue with providing updates on flight disruptions. Our team is actively working to resolve the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to resolving the issue.” Will update you once it’s done. Thanks for your patience and support,” SpiceJet said.

Indigo updated: “Since our systems have been affected by an ongoing issue with Microsoft Azure, we are experiencing a high volume in the contact center. Please contact us only if your journey is 24 hours.” be within.”
IT Minister on Microsoft shutdown
IT Minister Ashwini Vishnu has reacted to the global shutdown. “MEITY is in contact with Microsoft and its partners regarding the global outage. The cause of the outage has been identified and updates have been issued to resolve the issue. CERT is issuing a technical advisory Vishnu wrote. The IT minister clarified that NIC has not been affected by the network outage. “The NIC network is not affected,” added Vishnu.

What does Microsoft’s Live Services page read?

Microsoft The 365 admin page shows ‘service degradation’, which means users may not be able to use Microsoft 365 apps and services.
Initial Root Cause: A configuration change in a portion of our Azure back-end workload caused a bottleneck between storage and compute resources that resulted in connectivity failures that affected Microsoft 365 services dependent on those connections.

What is Microsoft doing about this problem?

Current status on the Microsoft Service Status website: We are committed to treating this event with the highest priority and urgency while we continue to address the lingering impact for the remaining Microsoft 365 apps that are in a deprecated state.
In a post on X, Microsoft 365 Status wrote that the company is “investigating an issue affecting users’ ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services”. “We are working on diverting affected traffic to alternative systems to more effectively mitigate the impact,” it said in another post. “We remain focused on redirecting affected traffic to healthy systems,” it added.

What X Users Are Saying

“Windows crashed…! Looks like everyone worldwide is having this problem.. Wow, please don’t fix. Take your time @Microsoft,” one user wrote.

“Windows down. P1 everywhere. There goes my weekend,” said another.

“Has anyone else’s #Windows11 laptop suddenly #BSOD and crashed? Happened to me and many of my colleagues!” A third wrote

Why are you seeing blue screen errors on your Windows laptop?

Reportedly, this issue is occurring after installing the CrowdStrike update. For those unfamiliar, CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that offers a cloud-based platform for security.
“CrowdStrike users using Windows are experiencing blue screens this morning. The issue is with the Falcon sensor and was introduced via an update overnight. CrowdStrike is aware of this and has Working,” one user wrote on X.

“Crowdstrike is causing the Falcon. Windows blue screen Death problem – problem in aws and azure,” another user posted on X.

“If you are having blue screen problem on your Windows 10 PC. And stuck on restart loop,
Don’t worry you are not alone. The worldwide issue is apparently due to some CrowdStrike update,” wrote another user.

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