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Microsoft Outage Raises Uncomfortable Questions About Business Reliance on Big Tech

The global Microsoft (https://iol.co.za/tags/microsoft/) outage that disrupted businesses and workers across South Africa has highlighted the extent to which modern organisations rely on a handful of major technology providers – and the consequences when the infrastructure underpinning those services fails. While Outlook was the most visible casualty, the disruption extended into Microsoft’s wider 365 ecosystem, […]
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Lack of regulation and widespread bread of the services of the company have shown (again) the frailties of entrusting our lives to giants of technology

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The global outage of Microsoft services caused problems with email and other work tools, plunging business communications and everyday services into disarray worldwide and highlighting the dangers of relying on one of the few major providers of essential technology. Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams and […] The article Microsoft outage: A bellwether for the dangers of relying on a tech giant appeared first on Free Press.

Those of us who cover financial and business reporting are used to starting our day with an inbox full of corporate announcements and press releases. Yesterday (November 13), however, the relevant emails…Read more...

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TechCabal broke the news on Friday, November 13, 2026.
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