‘Looks like we’ll have to talk to people’: Australia sent back to time before email with major Microsoft outage

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Government services and schools impacted by Outlook and Teams issue as company says fix not ‘taking as expected’Microsoft outage – live updatesMicrosoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and TeamsAustralian schools, courts and.
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- —Government services and schools impacted by Outlook and Teams issue as company says fix not ‘taking as expected’Microsoft outage – live updatesMicrosoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and TeamsAustralian schools, courts and government services have been hurled back in time to how business used to be done after a global Microsoft outage caused emails and online meetings to go dark.Australians began reporting issues with Microsoft 365 – which includes Outlook and Teams – just before 5am AEST on Friday, according to Down Detector.
- —The problem appeared to peak at 9.22am with more than 5,500 reports of problems, including trouble opening and sending emails, before reports began to dip.
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