UK Cat Blames Microsoft Outage on Another Cat
A cat in the UK jokingly claimed that the cause of a major outage in the services of the American corporation Microsoft is another cat.
Consensus
- A cat named Larry is the official mouser at the UK Prime Minister’s residence.
- Larry posted a humorous claim on social media about a Microsoft service outage.
- The post included an image or animation of a kitten biting a white wire.
- Microsoft services experienced a major outage affecting users in 74 countries.
- The outage began on the evening of November 12.
- Users reported issues with Outlook, Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Microsoft Teams.
- The outage was widely reported via the Downdetector platform.
Points of divergence
- The outage was preceded by a sharp drop in cryptocurrency markets on October 30 due to a Binance hack, and a global Revolut system failure on October 20. — vm
- The post was accompanied by a GIF, and the video source was credited as X/Number10cat. — tg_tass_agency
Coverage (3 sources)
- British cat Larry joked that his brother is to blame for the Microsoft outage — Вечерняя Москва
- Cat Larry from the residence of the UK Prime Minister in Bernham named the culprit of a major Microsoft malfunction. — ТАСС (Telegram)
- Cat Larry claims that a major Microsoft outage was caused by another cat — Москва 24
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