Business · 13/11/20261 min read

Microsoft outage: company scrambles to fix global issue that took down Outlook and Teams

Summary

Tech firm says it is ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption that took services down and has now addressed the underlying issue What caused the outage and when will it be fixed?

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