Sky News goes off air due to mass worldwide issue with Microsoft Windows

[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002677

I don't use Windows, but Linux.

Today, apart from one or two websites being slower than usual, I didn't notice anything until I heard the news on the TV about the outage hours later.