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Y2K24: Microsoft outage plunges airports, banks and even Xbox into the IT Dark Ages

Disastrous Crowdstrike IT outage affects services on a global scale as companies try to reboot and get back online

A global outage for Windows machines is experiencing a Blue Screen of Death, taking offline hospitals, banks, airports, TV broadcasters, and small to large businesses worldwide. The only recovery solution currently is to reboot machines into safe mode, allowing admins to dive into the CrowdStrike directory and delete the afflicting system file. Unfortunately, that’s a troublesome process even with a machine in front of you and this bug affects thousands of cloud-based servers and remotely deployed Windows PCs.

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