China Microsoft outage: Why wasn’t this country affected by the Microsoft outage? The answer is here

A massive global outage has halted major services around the world, including banking and airline operations, as Microsoft applications and services became unresponsive to users across the globe. Reports say the global outage was primarily caused by a CrowdStrike issue, which prevented Microsoft systems from booting properly and caused them to experience a blue screen of death.

The Bank of England was also affected by the massive Microsoft outage

Even the Bank of England, the most trusted bank in the UK, faced a major outage due to the same issue as it used Microsoft applications for its banking operations. However, the servers came back online after a few hours after the issue was resolved. However, the panic continued as people grew concerned about this IT outage that could affect a safe bank like BOE.

China’s tech infrastructure reportedly unaffected by Microsoft outage

However, as reported by the South China Morning Post, even though this global blackout caused the collapse of foreign companies and hotel chains in China, most of China’s infrastructure and services around the institutions were barely affected by the incident. Even airports in China’s neighboring countries such as India, Nepal and Pakistan had issues with airport and airline operations, but China’s Beijing and Shanghai airports functioned normally for the past 48 hours, according to the airports’ websites. This case is quite surprising considering that after the global blackout, airports in the UK and the US, which have cutting-edge technology, were crippled, while Chinese airport operations were barely affected.

Why did the global blackout affect China less?

China was spared from the global outage primarily due to its low reliance on third-party foreign service providers for things like cybersecurity and operations. China has been proactive in reducing and becoming less reliant on foreign systems and hardware in its domestic sectors. This is the primary reason why the Microsoft global outage did not impact China as badly as it did in the US, Europe, and parts of South Asia.

FAQ:

Has the global power outage affected Beijing International Airport?
According to the Beijing International Airport website, everything was functioning normally at the airport and it was not affected in any way by the global power outage.

Why was China unaffected by the Microsoft outage?
China relies more on its home-grown tech infrastructure and less on Microsoft and other Western services, which may be why it was less affected by the global blackout.

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