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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Cait Kelly

Microsoft outage: how Australian airports, banks and supermarkets were affected by major IT meltdown

The blue screen of death shown on a supermarket checkout screen
The Australian government has warned a global IT outage that threw major businesses including airports, banks, supermarkets and media outlets into chaos on Friday could still take ‘some time to resolve’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA

The Australian government has warned a global IT outage that threw major businesses including airports, banks, supermarkets and media outlets into chaos on Friday could still take “some time to resolve”.

The government activated a National Coordination Mechanism meeting of emergency authorities as well as representatives from the major supermarkets, banks, airlines and other key industries on Friday night to respond after Windows workstations were hit by the “blue screen of death”.

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