‘Strangely calming and unnerving’: How Microsoft’s massive outage upended the corporate workday

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A widespread Outlook outage delayed a corporate earnings report, and left users scrambling to submit their schoolwork or find alternate forms of communication.

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‘Strangely calming and unnerving’: How Microsoft’s massive outage upended the corporate workday

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