Microsoft Outage Inspires Viral Blue Screen Memes, Even Elon Musk Takes A Dig At This Global IT Glitch

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On Friday, 19 July 2024, the global Microsoft outage disrupted multiple sectors, including flights, supermarkets, and banking operations and this has led to social media users keeping themselves occupied with hillarious memes.

This major server outage that disrupted users' access to various Microsoft 365 apps and services which has possibly occured due to the failure of CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity platform that provides security solutions for Microsoft Windows. Soon after the major cyber outage hit several IT systems across the world, Microsoft occupied the top spot on the trends list on X.

Microsoft confirmed the issue in a statement, noting that they were "investigating an issue impacting users' ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services," as posted on their X (formerly Twitter) handle.

Take a look at the best memes here. No prizes for guessing that memes followed in the interim with social media users especially "celebrating" the fact that the outage occurred on a Friday and guess wat Elon Musk couldn't resist either and participated in the meme fest.

Here's What Elon Musk has shared to take a dig at the Microsoft outage.

The meme shows a man is peacefully smoking a beedi, while people running in chaos around him. According to the reports, the meme first originated on Indian social media in 2017 and has been reused to take a jab at Microsoft IT glitch.

1. IT Employees After Reporting Issue

2. The True Reason

3. Employees In Microsoft While Leaving Office

4. Corporate Employees Who Are Using Microsoft Services

5. The Window Crash That You Already Know, The Reason You Don't

6. People With Strict Guidelines Till Friday Evening

7. IT Departments In All Companies Right Now

8. Everyone coming to Twitter X to confirm about Microsoft Headquarters Server Down

The cyber outage affected critical services across the world, including India, Australia, Germany, the United States, the UK, and other countries.The outage affected banks, telecoms, media outlets and airlines, in Australia.

Emergency 911 services were disrupted in many parts of the United States, and non-emergency call centres were also not working due to the outage.