Is Outlook down? Widespread outage hits Microsoft email and other apps

Newseze Wire·Fri, Nov 13, 3:55 AMWire: Philadelphia Inquirer

A widespread outage has hit Microsoft platforms including Outlook, with many users encountering trouble using their email accounts and other errors across the tech giant’s suite of apps

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