Elon Musk has strongly criticized Microsoft and its Chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella, following a significant outage that severely impacted the automotive supply chain. The disruption, attributed to a CrowdStrike-Microsoft issue, caused considerable problems for Tesla’s suppliers and logistics companies, despite Musk’s own companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, and X social media platform, remaining operational. The outage affected millions globally, including major disruptions in India’s airlines and airport services.
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- Elon Musk criticized Microsoft’s outage, describing it as having “given a seizure to the automotive supply chain.”
- The outage primarily affected Tesla’s suppliers and logistics companies.
- Despite the disruption, Tesla, SpaceX, and the X social media platform operated normally.
- Musk’s team removed CrowdStrike from their systems as a precaution.
- Many suppliers and logistics companies affected by the outage were using CrowdStrike’s services.
- CrowdStrike acknowledged the issue, linking it to a defect in a Windows content update.
- The company is working with affected customers to resolve the incident.
- A technical overview of the events has been provided by CrowdStrike.
- The global outage impacted millions of Microsoft Windows users.
- In India, major disruptions were experienced in airlines and airport services due to the outage.
