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Realistically, there’s nothing funny about the massive global IT outage Microsoft experienced Friday morning. Flights, banks, 911 call centers, and hospitals were among those affected as the outage affected thousands of Windows PCs. But we’re laughing because we can’t cry. Memes and jokes about the problem began popping up almost immediately. Here are a few of our favorites.
Happy International BlueScreen Day!
A Twitter user called the day International BlueScreen Dayas many computers showed the famous Microsoft Blue Screen of Death. How do you celebrate this?
Blame someone!
Wouldn’t it be nice to put the blame for this mistake on the shoulders of one unlucky IT employee? Posts on topics tried to do it, writing: “So excited about new internship at Microsoft. I tripped over a few cables this morning, but I think I fixed them.”
And another (fake, we hope) account posed as the CrowdStrike employee who brought down the entire world. It reads: “First day at CrowdStrike, pushed a small update and took the afternoon off.”
A post from Mastodon mocked a CrowdStrike ad with the wrong time. The ad claimed that “62 minutes could ruin your business.” Thankfully, that never happened!
Sad times for the Atmosphere
The famous entertainment venue Vegas Sphere has been the subject of a number of glitches, including an image of the entire sphere displaying the Blue Screen of Death.
The Suez Canal remembered
Do you remember the drama when the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal? One BlueSky user does this by posting messages, “A line of code has become stuck in the Suez Canal.”
Why is MY computer not working?
Some employees who thought the outage would give them a break from the daily grind found that wasn’t the case. Many social media posts echoed this X user, who wrote: “Actively furious that the global Microsoft outage doesn’t seem to have affected my workplace.”
And not all Microsoft programs were affected. Wrote Max Pollard on X“The outage at Microsoft, but Teams and Outlook work fine, is the adult version of snow that doesn’t provide enough peace for a school closure.”
And another tweet suggested the following: “Whoever is responsible for the outage at Microsoft is getting fired anyway, so it would be wise to turn off Teams for a day too and leave a hero behind.”
