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Organizers Of Paris Olympics: Microsoft Outage Affecting IT Operations

A week before the games’ opening ceremony, organizers of the Paris Olympics announced on Friday that they were encountering troubles caused by a massive global computer systems outage.

The problems arose after a huge outage caused havoc on computer systems around the world, grounding flights in the United States, derailing television broadcasts in the UK, and affecting telecommunications in Australia.

“Paris 2024 is aware of global technical issues affecting Microsoft software. These issues are impacting Paris 2024’s IT operations”, the organizers claimed.

organizers went on to say, “Paris 2024’s technical teams have been fully mobilized to mitigate the impacts of these issues and we have activated contingency plans to continue operations”.

According to a source within the Paris Olympic Games organising committee, the problem is affecting the accreditation system with some people unable to pick up badges before next Friday’s ceremony on the River Seine.

“It could also affect the arrival of athletes who have had flights canceled after the athletes’ Olympic village welcomed its first guests on Thursday”, the source said.

The London Stock Exchange (LSE), airports in Spain, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong as well as production at Tesla’s plant outside Berlin have all been disrupted.

Microsoft said in a statement that it was implementing mitigation actions in response to service disruptions.

It was unclear whether these were linked to the global outages.

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Spriha Rai

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