One week before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the organizers of the Paris Olympics announced on Friday that they were experiencing issues related to a significant global computer systems failure.
The problems arose after a significant outage wrecked havoc on computer systems throughout the globe, affecting telecommunications in Australia, grounding planes in the US, and disrupting television broadcasts in the UK.
“Paris 2024 is aware of widespread technical problems with Microsoft software on a global scale. “These problems are affecting the IT operations of Paris 2024,” the organizers said in a statement.
On Friday, one week prior to the opening ceremony of the Games, the Paris Olympics organizers declared that they were experiencing problems stemming from a major global computer systems failure.
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The issues started when a big outage wreaked havoc on computer systems all around the world, hurting Australian telephones, bringing down US planes, and interfering with UK television broadcasts.
The organizers said, “Paris 2024 is aware of widespread technical issues with Microsoft software on a global scale. These issues are affecting Paris 2024’s IT operations.”
In response to service problems, Microsoft announced in a statement that it was implementing “mitigation actions”. If those were connected to the worldwide disruptions was unclear.
