The global Microsoft outage is causing widespread disruptions across the globe including sectors like airlines, stock markets, banks etc. The impacted services include: PowerBI, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Purview and Viva Engage.

Acknowledgeding the issues with its Azure services and Microsoft 365 apps, they said, “Our services are still seeing continuous improvements while we continue to take mitigation actions.”
 

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Airlines
Major airlines such as India’s Akasa, IndiGo, Air India, Vistara and SpiceJet faced operational challenges. Airlines have tweeted about the disruptions, implementing manual processes and advising passengers to arrive early for check-in due to technical challenges. It is learned that the flight operations has been affected at Goa and Bengaluru International Airport. 

Banks and Payment system failure
Social media users have shared pictures of long queues at Australian stores such as Woolworths due to payment system failures, as well as difficulties accessing financial institutions like the National Australia Bank.

Massive queues were seen in Coles, Woolworths and 7-Eleven stores after a monumental outage hit computers protected by technology produced by antivirus giant Crowdstrike.

A man posted on X, '90% of my local Woolworths registers had the (blue screen of death). Queues a mile long, absolute chaos. National outage? Local?' Meanwhile Coles Broadway - one of the biggest supermarkets in Sydney - has sent staff out the front to tell shoppers: 'Cash only. EFTPOS is down.'

Stock markets
The LSE Group, which runs the London stock market, stated that it is suffering a worldwide technical issue that prevents news from being published on www.londonstockexchange.com. Technical staff are attempting to restore service. Other services within the Group, notably the London Stock Exchange, continue to operate normally.