Times Square Billboards Impacted by Microsoft Outage

Multiple billboard screens in New York’s Times Square crashed on Friday morning, July 19, due to a major Microsoft outage linked to the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike that was impacting computers worldwide.

Images of Times Square posted early that morning showed several screens displaying the so-called Blue Screen of Death, a common term for Microsoft’s blue-colored error screen.

The impacted screens, such as the screen in this footage, were later turned off, switching from blue to black. Credit: Rob McDonagh via Storyful