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The IT operations of the Olympics were hampered by a global IT outage on 19 July 2024 due to a faulty update provided by CrowdStrike, causing computers that were running Windows to experience the blue screen of death. The outage occurred a day after the Olympic Village opened and organisers were processing the arrivals of athletes and delegates.
During the ceremony, many spectators saw a Windows XP blue screen of death projected onto the ceiling of the stadium for two hours. A photo of Li Ning, who lighted the cauldron, passing the blue screen went viral. [77]
Digital signage at Dulles International Airport displaying a blue screen of death during the incident Globally, 5,078 air flights, 4.6% of those scheduled that day, were cancelled. [ 54 ] [ 27 ] An unrelated Microsoft Azure outage, affecting services such as Microsoft 365 , compounded airlines' problems.
And a similar screen preceded the Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, Plummer said, further adding to the confusion. “There was a blue screen in the Windows of the older days of the ‘80s,” he said.
Olympic organizers have since apologized for the scene after it was criticized by the Catholic church and Christian groups. The French Catholic Church said the festivities “included scenes of ...
French authorities have opened an investigation into death threats and cyber harassment targeting the artistic director of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony Thomas Jolly, the Paris Prosecutor's ...
Digital signage at Dulles International Airport displaying a blue screen of death during the incident Globally, 5,078 air flights, 4.6% of those scheduled that day, were cancelled. [ 53 ] [ 27 ] An unrelated Microsoft Azure outage, affecting services such as Microsoft 365 , compounded airlines' problems.
The Blue Screen of Death (also called BSoD, or stop error) is a common name for a screen displayed by the Microsoft Windows operating system when a critical system ...