43 crore users in 74 countries affected, loss of Rs 93 thousand crore
New Delhi: Technical glitch in Microsoft's services increased the problems of crores of people in 74 countries of the world including India. The glitch, which started after midnight on Thursday, caused popular services like Microsoft 365, Outlook and Teams to go down.
Its impact was not limited only to the common users, but the functioning of airlines, hospitals, banks, government offices and courts was also affected. There was disruption in services for more than 16 hours.
Amidst worldwide chaos, the company's shares fell by about 2 percent in the American stock market. Due to this global outage, there is a possibility of loss of about 10 billion dollars i.e. more than 93 thousand crore rupees.