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REDMOND, Wash.– A widespread Microsoft service disruption affected companies around the world. Downdetector recorded problems across more than 70 countries, with approximately 130,000 Outlook problem reports in the United States during the initial disruption.
The incident adds pressure on the technology sector during an already difficult week. The protracted outage at Microsoft only adds to the current wall of worries for the tech sector, analysts noted.
Outages of this kind highlight how much businesses depend on cloud-based email and collaboration tools for daily operations.
