All the best memes from the global Microsoft outage

Businesses across the world are suffering from the effects of a major IT outage, but social media users have found a way to make light of the situation.

The global outage has stopped thousands of employees from logging into work on this sunny Friday.

Banks, airlines and news organisations are among the services hit by the international IT outage, and many employees using Microsoft Windows computers have experienced the infamous ‘blue screen of death’ as their devices crash.

So what are they doing with their time? Making memes, of course.

While the world waits for the issues to be fixed, we’ve rounded up some of the most hilarious takes.

Spare a thought for IT workers

Some are poking fun at CrowdStrike employees – who’s heads are no doubt on the line after today’s disastrous events…

While others made light fun of IT teams’ hardest work day.

Detective work

An interesting theory around who is responsible for the outage has emerged in the form of digital office assistant Clippy…

But others have joked that a simple error might have led to worldwide chaos.

Divided by nations, united by Microsoft

Even Elon Musk got involved in the fun. It’s a good job X is still working, or we wouldn’t have these wonderful memes to while away the time.

Meanwhile, on TikTok…

At least someone’s having fun!

Friday feeling

Anyone else logging off early today?