‘In touch with Microsoft’: IT Minister Vaishnaw as global outage hits airlines, bank services

Microsoft Windows outage: Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Friday, said that the government was in touch with Microsoft amid the global outage that has affected airlines, the stock market, banks and other services across the world.

In the first reaction by the Centre on the global outage, Vaishnaw took to X and stated, “MEITY is in touch with Microsoft and its associates regarding the global outage. The reason for this outage has been identified and updates have been released to resolve the issue. CERT is issuing a technical advisory. NIC network is not affected.”