McDonald's stores across parts of the world were either closed or had suspended online orders Friday after what the company said was a technology outage. The unspecified issue affected the fast food chain's stores in Japan and Australia, while social media users also reported disruption in China, Britain and elsewhere across Asia and Europe. “We are aware of a technology outage, which impacted our restaurants; the issue is now being resolved. We thank customers for their patience and apologize...
McDonald's suffered a system failure on Friday that left many customers in many parts of the world unable to order food.
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Members of the Microsoft Teams Insider program can check out a preview version right now of a new and upcoming user interface refresh of the Windows 11 Teams desktop app for personal use.
Microsoft is continuing on its mission to inject AI into more of its products and features. For one thing, Copilot is coming to more parts of Teams in the coming months, including the meeting chat and the chat compose box. The AI will soon be able to offer you insights and information from the meeting chat and the transcript, so if something was either written or spoken, Copilot will be able to pull from it. Microsoft says that when you open Copilot in a meeting chat, you’ll have a “more...
McDonald's restaurants across Australia have been forced to temporarily close, and other branches around the world have reported a widespread technological issue which means customers cannot pay for food.Internal systems in Australian restaurants have been offline since about 3:10 p.m. local time, according to a report by News.com.au.IT issues have also been reported online in China including Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Germany.What We KnowA spokesperson from McDonald's...
Microsoft is bringing together its Windows experiences and its Windows devices teams to form one division, and it has appointed company veteran Pavan Davuluri with the task of leading it. As The Verge notes, Davuluri has been serving as head of the Surface team since last year, after Microsoft split up Windows experiences and devices following Panos Panay's departure. The company is expanding his role again after another departure, this time of former Windows experiences lead Mikhail Parakhin,...
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Their computer system was Mc-Done-alds. McDonald’s restaurants around the globe were forced to suspend online orders following a computer system failure that impacted outlets in the United St
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