The Microsoft outage wasn't quite the disaster movie we'd feared, but next time it could be so different: GUY ADAMS

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Friday's Microsoft crash appears to have had comparatively benign consequences compared to Hollywood disaster movie How It Ends.

Published: 23:29 GMT, 13 November 2026 | Updated: 10:14 GMT, 14 November 2026

In the Hollywood disaster movie How It Ends, a mysterious computer glitch knocks out all electricity and communication networks.

Flights are grounded, financial markets seize up, and panicking shoppers unable to use their credit cards start looting petrol stations and supermarkets.

Within a few short hours, major cities have been reduced to rubble-strewn hellscapes controlled by rival gangs of armed motorcycle bandits, one of which ends up shooting and killing our tragic protagonist, played by Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker.

That Friday's Microsoft crash appears to have had comparatively benign consequences should, of course, be seen as a blessing.

In homes and offices across Britain, many of us were forced to swap email for WhatsApp and make a few extra phone calls. Power grid bosses were reportedly reduced to using fax machines.

The worst-affected organisations were, needless to say, almost all in the public sector. Some schools, local councils and GP surgeries suffered disruption, while a jury in Manchester had to be sent home because the Ministry of Justice couldn't work out how to transport defendants from prison to court.

Doomsday 'preppers' who, at the behest of Andy Burnham, have filled their sheds with bottled water and clockwork radios, will have avoided having to prise open a single tin of beans.

Millions of users around the world began reporting Outlook was down on Thursday, in what experts have dubbed the 'most disruptive email-related business outage of all time'

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