The fallout from the Microsoft bug that almost ‘crashed the world’ yesterday is likely to last days, experts warned.
Pharmacies, NHS services, police, courts, schools, charities, banks and businesses were all left wrestling with the consequences of the software glitch.
Microsoft said it was ‘very sorry’ for the outage of its servers that affected up to 430million users across 74 countries – but warned the trouble would last another 48 hours.
Experts said the meltdown was a wake-up call that exposes how reliant Britain’s services are on a handful of powerful US tech firms.
Professor Junaid Arshad, head of computer science at Birmingham City
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