United Airlines told theBBC: A third-party software outage is impactingcomputersystems worldwide, including at United.

Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted.

This is not a security incident orcyber attack.

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Windows Glitch Sparks Global Chaos As Airlines, Businesses, And Communications Go Down

Tokyo-Narita and Delhi airports also said their services had been affected.

Various media were affected by the technical bug, as British broadcasterSky News went off air, theBBCreported.

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Windows Glitch Sparks Global Chaos As Airlines, Businesses, And Communications Go Down

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Windows Glitch Sparks Global Chaos As Airlines, Businesses, And Communications Go Down

Windows Glitch Sparks Global Chaos As Airlines, Businesses, And Communications Go Down

Windows Glitch Sparks Global Chaos As Airlines, Businesses, And Communications Go Down