Major news outlets are reporting an outage with Microsoft is affecting banks, trains, airlines, media and major infrastructure. Microsoft itself has said it is taking action to mitigate service issues, which it says started early Friday morning.
The outage, which is not though to be malicious, is being reported to be related to two interconnected issues with Microsofts cloud services platform, Azure, and a third party anti-virus Crowdstrike security software update.
The news comes a day after the CHAPS banking service was affected by a ‘global issue‘ relating to third party payment company Swift. The service was back up and running within a couple of hours.
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If there are banking issues I would encourage everyone to be kind, patient and understanding. Do not start threatening people with notices to complete. Find ways around the problem. Do not be that problem firm I had the misfortune of dealing with a few years ago; Everyone was completing on undertakings because money couldn’t be moved or checked. That one problem firm decided to go down to the bank, physically, and transfer funds that way. They then went to the chain and served notice in full knowledge that no one could check the bank for receipt of funds.
Still waiting for those rabid supporters of tech to tell us it is all someone else’s fault guv and this is still the way to go as it is the future.
Arithmatic still works. Face to face works. Cash still works. A written letter works.