This global Microsoft Outage

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et

Any worries? It is chaos out there by the look of the news.

My experience is that I’m not able to work today and had trouble using my debit card this morning. The transaction eventually went through but it’s not showing on my account.

Just back from Sainsbury’s - no issue with systems or with card payment. I didn’t even realise there was an issue until I got home.

Me too!

Your shopping day and essentials aren’t the same thing, that’s pretty obvious. I’m sure they’ll be fine for a couple days without the weekly shop.

My Asda delivery has just arrived with no issues. I bank with Halifax though and downdector says that there are no problems with them.

Our work has a few users affected. I have suggested powering off laptops to protect them and all starting the weekend early, but they were not keen!

It would be entirely normal for me to think, " must top up with petrol Friday after work before I travel away for the weekend." It's also the start of the school hols for many.

And I ran out of milk this morning.

Well I buy all my essentials in my once a week big shop, some I don’t get your point.

Thanks @Dontcallmescarface fingers crossed it will be fine!

Why does asking if the supermarkets are open have to descend into chaos. It's crazy.

It should be a good thing longer term, as it will get organisations reviewing their contingency plans, single points of failure, etc.

Let us never forget the wise words of the Mumsnet user in March 2020 who was absolutely convinced that buying milk was not an essential.

You can always use a little bit of water on your cereal, or a small cube of soft cheese in your tea (paraphrased).

we are ok this end but got no emails from clients this morning which makes me think that they are all down.

All working here. Even the train wifi worked this morning. Debit card transactions ok. The only dodgy thing was phone signal on O2/Giff Gaff.

Essentials are the absolute basics you need, I highly doubt the vast majority of people on here can’t survive a couple of days of their weekly shop was delayed. Ergo, if someone can’t do their weekly shop today and have to go, shock, tomorrow they’ll be fine.

Crazy stuff, like needing to feed their children. Some people live completely hand to mouth and may have no food in the house.

You are really showing your privilege here.

Remember that the whole world is affected by this. Please consider that this affects not only first world countries, but also those rife in poverty. Many people are paid weekly on a Friday, and literally live week to week. On Friday they will be able to eat a proper meal which they perhaps haven't been able to for a day or so.

It is not always just a case of topping up and stockpiling.

Ridiculous that one security company can affect so much.

I don't believe it - I think these and other recent issues are major orchestrated cyber attacks from China and Russia.

No they aren't, don't be stupid. The essentials in this context are the core parts of the weekly food consumption - things like milk, tea, coffee, bread, yoghurt, sandwich fillers, butter, fruit juice etc. None of which are 'absolute basics', especially in isolation. They're just the things that people build their weekly diet around.

Someone called Mark Lloyd high up in IT has been quoted in the Guardian referring to a "rogue" update or words to that effect. Given the importance of language and PR in situations like this, I think clarification of "rogue" from his perspective is required.....

The rush on toilet paper is going to start again isn’t it…..

I've just been to Lidl and had trouble paying but it did eventually go through.

I used to work for a cybersecurity company, CrowdStrike's competitor in fact. I wonder if they used AI to help them write or check the code for the update and didn't catch a flaw.

I'm also wondering how many bad actors are working to take advantage of this downage. CrowdStrike is f*cked as a company.

Currently on holiday. Looking at contents of almost empty fridge and contemplating muesli with water for dinner, and sharing a kit kat for dinner, if we're unable to use Apple Pay in the one local shop today

At home, with a reasonably well stocked freezer, we'd be fine for several days

And I suppose industrial espionage is a "thing".....

Someone called Mark Lloyd high up in IT