Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
Microsoft’s latest email outage turned into a full blown global cloud crisis
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- · TechCrunchMicrosoft’s Outlook email hit by new outage
- · Al JazeeraMicrosoft hit by global outages: What happened and why?
- · IGNMicrosoft Struggling to Fix Global System Outage Impacting Email Systems and More, Admits Initial Repairs 'Not Taking as Expected'
- · VarietyMicrosoft Says ‘No Evidence of Malicious Activity’ in Global Outage of Outlook and Exchange Email as It Begins to Restore Services
- · BBC NewsWhat we know about the global Microsoft outage
- · Al JazeeraYou haven’t got mail: Global Microsoft outage disrupts services
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