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EU Institutions Survive Microsoft Outage Unscathed

Summary by Politico Europe
Europe is working to reduce its use of big U.S. providers.

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Brussels, 13 Nov (EFE).- Pymes and self-employed from Belgium and public administrations, courts and companies from the Netherlands experienced interruptions and difficulties in accessing Microsoft platforms this Friday following the global fall in services of the US multinational. As explained by the Belgian television broadcast RTBF, the Flemish business organization Unizo detected "enormous [...] The entry The EU, "aware" of the fall of Micro…

The failure observed for several hours at Microsoft has had an impact on many SMEs in Belgium, reports Unizo. Flemish employers say that one in two SMEs would not be able to continue their activities without digital services such as those offered by the US IT giant. ...

Illustration - Adobe Stock "No email comes in," Virginia says. "Both professionally and privately, we realize that we are dependent on Microsoft."She explains that in her company Teams, the communication platform (which was also impacted by Microsoft's failure) is working. "Happily!"The failure of Microsoft services has been putting sticks in the wheels of workers around the world since Thursday evening. At the time of writing these lines, we st…

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RTL Info broke the news on Friday, November 13, 2026.
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