Microsoft outage: Fliers stuck at Dubai airport, US flights impacted too

Hours after Microsoft’s infamous ‘Blue Screen of Death’ outage, reports have emerged that passenger operations at Dubai airport came to a standstill due to a worldwide outage resulting from an update by cybersecurity platform Crowdstrike, which caused Microsoft services to become unavailable.

The outage also caused numerous US airlines to cancel flights, which resumed only after Microsoft restored cloud services in the Central US region.