Microsoft outage: Should the power of one of the world’s most sophisticated tech company be curtailed?
global IT outage for the last few days has turned out to be the biggest technological crisis in history. The outage has also revealed the excessive dependency on a single company, Microsoft, that has now come into question, after banks, airlines, and various other important administrative services took a major hit. Even police authorities were not able to man their 911 lines and operations in various countries in the West due to the IT outage, begging the question why Microsoft has become the epicenter of all administrative activities.
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Is the world extremely dependent on IT giants like Microsoft?
Microsoft's applications and services shut down across the world, that created a ruckus at airport queues, banks, ATMs, IT firms, who utilize Microsoft services in their day-to-day operations. According to a previous ET report, China was among the least affected powerful nations, whose daily business and administrative operations went along as usual, with minimal reports of outages.
This is because of doing away with Western technology and reducing China's dependency on tech giants like Microsoft, which was the reason why airports in Beijing and Shanghai operated as usual but Los Angeles International airport, London's Heathrow airport, and even China's neighboring country, India's New Delhi International airport saw a massive crisis around flight and airport operations.
