Microsoft reported on Friday “continued progress” in the restoration of its services affected since the day before by a global outage, with “improvements” in North America and “in a large part of Europe”, as well as “encouraging” signs of recovery in Asia-Pacific.
“Some users may still encounter intermittent access difficulties” or “delays in the delivery of emails,” however, the group specified in a message on
No impact on hospitals in France
The global outage affecting certain Microsoft software had no impact observed at midday on the operation of hospitals in France, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.
“If this breakdown is likely to affect exchanges between services, no impact has at this stage been observed on the functioning of health establishments, emergency services or on the reporting of health reports, thanks to the establishment of alternative communication and reporting circuits,” indicated the office of the Minister of Health Stéphanie Rist. “The situation is being closely monitored by all the ministerial services concerned, and in particular by the Health Crisis Center,” according to the same source.
“There was no impact on the response to vital emergencies,” she explained. “There may have been impacts on the transmission of information between professionals, but they could have been circumvented by direct calls,” she added. “These kinds of breakdowns and cyberattacks show us in any case how important it is not to bring together Samu and firefighters on the same platform,” to facilitate the resilience of taking emergency calls, she added.
