Author: Wency Chen,Coco Feng,Che Pan

The recent Microsoft Windows outage in China affected foreign businesses and luxury hotels, causing disruptions in some airports in the Asia-Pacific region. However, China’s key infrastructure, such as airports and banks, remained largely unaffected, showcasing the country’s reduced reliance on foreign tech providers. The outage, caused by a software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, resulted in blue screens on computers and affected many foreign business offices. Despite this, China’s public services continued to operate smoothly. Many Chinese netizens took to social media platform Weibo to share their experiences, with some joking about getting a “half-day off” due to the outage.…