Worldwide Microsoft Failure Plunges Companies Into Crisis: Who Pays for the Standstill?
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On Friday, all over the world Microsoft services such as the Outlook email program fail. It becomes clear how dependent companies and authorities have made on the American software company.
Failures in teams and Outlook paralyze numerous offices. But who is responsible for the standstill and pays real damages to companies affected by Microsoft?
As widespread outages affecting Microsoft services continue worldwide, a humorous post on social media by Larry, the famous cat of the UK Prime Minister's residence, has become a trending topic. The post suggested that the outage was caused by a cat gnawing on cables.
Information available is still scarce to assess the real size of the impact of failure on Portuguese companies.
Mails remain lying down, businesses improvise: What the Microsoft failure costs and what compensation customers can expect.
The failure in Microsoft's services is causing serious operational disturbances in companies in various sectors worldwide, forcing the postponement of operations, according to the Director General of the Confederation of Business of Portugal (CIP).
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