‘Blue Screen of Death’ Outage Affects Microsoft Users Worldwide; Flights, Markets, Stock Exchange Down

Crores of Windows users throughout the world are suffering the Blue Screen of Death outage that is causing computers to shut down or restart. Some computers are restarting repeatedly affecting services.

Blue Screen errors, also known as black screen errors or STOP code errors, can occur when a critical issue forces Windows to unexpectedly shut down or restart.

As the systems shut down, a message on the screen says, “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you.”

In a statement, Microsoft 365 said that they are investigating the issue.

This massive global outage has affected flights to supermarkets to banking operations. In India, three air carriers — IndiGo, SpiceJet and Akasa Air — are facing technical issues that are affecting booking, check-in and flight updates, reported NDTV. The airlines are now checking in passengers manually.

Australia is worst affected. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the outage has hit ABC News 24 that struggled to play news packages. The Woolworths supermarkets in Australia were affected as its checkout systems crashed due to the outage. Police systems went down too.

Melbourne airport’s check-in process of several airlines is affected. Virgin Australia has said the outage is preventing all planes from coming and going at Sydney Airport.

The London Stock Exchange, reports said, has been affected by the outage. British news channel Sky News is off the air.

As for Europe, technical issues are causing check-in delays in Amsterdam. At Berlin flight operations had to cancelled due to the “technical problem”.