A massive Microsoft outage has left people around the world without access to Outlook email, Teams meeting tools and other staples of modern office life.
In the United States, fed-up workers at some companies went home early on Thursday. In Australia, businesses couldn’t print invoices and some schools couldn’t hold online classes on Friday.
And there was no quick fix. As of 3:30 a.m. GMT on Friday, the outage was still widespread, affecting untold millions of people.
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Source: CNN News
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