Editor’s note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage.
On Thursday, a Microsoft outage linked to a failed CrowdStrike update affected industry giants across travel and finance, and underscored the risks of our dependence on digital technology. As people flooded into work this morning — and CrowdStrike scrambled to get systems up and running — reactions to the outage on X captured a full spectrum of human emotion.
Here are the best memes, moments, and memories from that harrowing time. 💔
