Global Microsoft outage forces police and hospitals back to fax
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A global Microsoft outage paralyzed parts of the United Kingdom's public sector digital systems on Friday, forcing hospital staff to use paper documents, courts were raided for fax machines and police urged residents to report crimes by phone.
Microsoft 365 outage paralyzes businesses, hospitals, and financial services in 74 countries - Services are back up, but millions of users are still waiting for their emails to be delivered
Global Microsoft outage forces police and hospitals back to fax
ThreeNews reporter Ava Whitworth explains how a global Microsoft 365 outage knocked Outlook and Teams offline for almost 12 hours, affecting more than 433 million users and disrupting police, hospitals, Auckland Transport and visa processing.
Japanese stock exchange employees used the fax and phone because the email was blocked. It was about a global shutdown of Microsoft 365 service that blocked the e-mail. Problems started on Thursday in the U.S. and subsequently spread to different parts of the world, causing global damage estimated at over $7 billion.
The bread in the e-mail, Teams and Microsoft's Copilot led funds in Taiwan to validate fax titles and the British NHS to write down paper queries.
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