A global technical outage impacted computers running Microsoft Windows across the world on Friday. According to several media, airline operations, terminal services, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, supermarkets and other critical infrastructure have been taken offline after all Windows machines suddenly BSoD’d (Blue Screen of Death). Cybersecurity company Crowdstrike added that the cause is currently under investigation. “Our current information is this outage relates to a technical issue with a third-party software platform employed by affected companies,” the office of Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said in a statement. concurrently, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights from major US airlines, including Delta, United and American Airlines due to communication issues, CNN added. It remains unclear how long the ground stop will last and if it is somehow related to the Microsoft cloud outage. NN: We got rid of our microsoftieee servers years ago. And we don’t store our data in the fog of the China based cloud servers…. Knock on wood all our severs and services are working with the exception of Silent Circle. That is why we host BlackCryptoPhone on our servers which is working fine.