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After a widespread outage shut down Microsoft 365 services for businesses, governments, and tens of millions of other users around the world, the essential cloud services are now (mostly) back online, according to the company’s status page.
The outage debacle began around lunchtime on the East Coast on Thursday, with users reporting Outlook outages to the service-tracking website Downdetector just after 12 pm ET. Within the hour, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of an outage that at the time was limited to North America. It quickly spread to impact more than 70 countries around the world.
