Microsoft reported a global Outlook outage on Friday, which it attributed to elevated load on its infrastructure rather than malicious activity. The disruption affected users in 74 countries and territories, prompting airlines in India and Immigration New Zealand to report service impacts.
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Microsoft said "malicious" activity was not to blame for an Outlook outage that has left users around the world without its crucial services on Friday, but reported making headway in fixing the massive disruption.
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Since this software is used by a vast number of people, we will closely monitor the situation and take every possible measure to address it,
We need to know the systems that keep this country running won't simply fall over without notice,
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The disruption went global within an hour, knocking out Microsoft products in 74 countries and territories, outage tracker Downdetector reported.
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Immigration New Zealand said it has paused the processing of all visa applications until further notice because of the global Microsoft outage.
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