Microsoft Outage Live Updates: Microsoft resolves cloud outage that caused some US airlines to ground flights

Microsoft Windows Outage Live: The global Microsoft outage is causing widespread disruptions across various sectors, from flights and, the stock market, to banking operations. Users were unable to log into their systems as their devices crashed after being switched on. Thousands of Windows users worldwide are encountering the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error. BSODs occur due to errors in driver software or hardware problems. A BSOD signifies a complete system failure at the Windows kernel level caused by issues with Windows drivers or hardware, rather than an application crash.

Microsoft outage: Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal bats for stringent data localisation norms
Ride-hailing firm Ola’s founder Bhavish Aggarwal who has previously been vocal against the dominance of foreign companies like Microsoft and Google in India batted for data localisation in the context of Microsoft’s global outage. Currently, India’s data protection law (which is yet to be enforced) allows cross-border data flow except to countries blacklisted by the Centre.