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.

Well, the GP computers got their update through the internet/ being connected to something outside the NHS.

Possible cause ?

But it's for emergencies so it's about keeping people alive not happy

We have over 65.000 shelters and there is a map where you can find the closest one. One of my neighbour’s has one. There is usually one house in every street that has one. The only thing is you can’t bring your pets.

prepare.campaign.gov.uk

Who is "our"?

Same here. My asda shop got delivered about an hour ago. With First Direct and just checked and the app seems to be working OK too

We rarely use cash but I insist the DC have £20 stuck in the back of their phone case and I usually have around £100 cash just in case.
All my IT bits are working fine except my printer but thats generally Shit anyway.
DH is in IT and the systems he is on (Govt) are all Ok too

Just seen on Nextdoor

Apparently, the metal shutters to the local Railway Station would not open earlier
No idea if its linked but it may be the software used is affected, as its done online now .

But to me, "emergency" would mean "imminent danger", or trapped in the house because of flooding/snow.

In a cashless society, "emergency" covers "any time the computers go down". I've got £50 in the kitchen tin, so we're fine. This time.

Rang the surgery yesterday afternoon & again today & got the recorded message saying to call back later (usually if there’s a high volume of calls, they give the option for a call back & you keep your place in the queue). I’m not working today so don’t know if the tills/card machines are affected.

When I was a dc my dm could only afford to buy enough to eat for a couple of days, she couldn't drive either.
Shopping daily was normal.

Now it's you showing YOUR privilege.
People around the world living in abject poverty tend to not be paid once a week, it's more likely paid for a day's work when they can get it. And getting an entire week's worth would be a miraculous stroke of luck.
Under-developed countries' poverty is completely unlike the "relative poverty" that we have in the UK.

Quick get the tin foil hat out and batten down the hatches.

Most outages aren't caused by cyber attacks, they are caused by not having completed adequate testing of an update before putting it out, so not identifying the faults.

It's entirely possible that the outage will result in cyberattacks due to bad actors exploiting this outage to gain access where they shouldn't, but that does mean the outage was caused by Russia.

https://news.sky.com/story/britons-should-have-three-days-worth-of-tinned-food-and-water-government-says-13141114

I keep €100 and £100 in a drawer.
However in France they still take chqs thank goodness.

An emergency can be anything and as mature responsibilities adults it's important for us to be able to survive and be self efficient for a minimum of a few days to keep our families alive in case of emergency. When ever anything happens all of sudden a significant amount of people start panicking and say we have no food in the house and no petrol in the car.

As someone who works in IT, I very much doubt it, and VERY MUCH know that cock up is more likely than conspiracy.

Won't someone think of the shareholders ?

The newspapers are asking for stories about IT issues. I wonder if any incel types are angry that Porn Hub has gone down.

Are people still cheering the disappearance of cash?Some places are only taking cash out because of this. Imagine how quickly chaos can ensue on this outages.

Oh I can see some making fun on people using cash. Not surprised they are usually thick and smug about it.

I know, too much emphasis on the impacts on essential services here. Tut tut😂

Just goes to show though that Mr Putin wouldn't have to bomb us. He just needs to mess with tech to cause absolute chaos and unrest.

This is exactly the wrong response.

Given the complexity and interconnectedness of systems these days, and how easily things can go wrong, outages are inevitable. It’s very seldom caused by incompetence or recklessness (unless it’s the business recklessly underfunding or defunding their technical teams).

Most often this happens because of some unexpected combination of software or settings that didn’t exist in the environment where the testing happened, but does exist out in the world, as evidenced by the fact that not all crowdstrike customers are having outages.

The thing this company needs most now are people that understand what’s happened, can get it fixed fast and roll out the fix. The people involved in this one will have that understanding, and be very well placed if this happens again - they’re now more valuable to the company, not less.

That’s what I thought.