Friday’s global tech failure was the main talking point on the airwaves last night, as the nation’s talking heads reflected on the impact of the Microsoft outage — being described as one of the biggest IT failures ever — on Egypt’s sectors. We have the full story in the news well, above.

Egypt left (mostly) unscathed: “Egypt’s banking, aviation, seaports, and other vital sectors were not impacted by the global tech failure,” CIT Minister Amr Talaat told Extra News (watch, runtime: 7:17). Talaat attributed this to “the country's reliance on centralized security methods rather than cloud computing.”

What was affected? While some of the Aviation Ministry’s systems were impacted by the failure, the ministry noted Friday afternoon that no more than 15 international flights had been affected across all of Egypt’s airports. By Friday evening, the Aviation Ministry had announced that a few departing and incoming flights had been delayed. And as of yesterday morning, 97% of international flights were moving as scheduled.

We have our own cloud computing and data storage center, which was inaugurated in April, which Ala Masouleety’s Ahmed Moussa said (watch, runtime: 3:30) helped Egypt stay immune to the tech failure.

The story also received coverage from Salat El Tahrir (watch, runtime: 5:00) and El Sa’a El Sadesa (watch, runtime: 7:33).

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