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Microsoft’s global outage threatens billions in Australian economic losses, exposing the nation’s dangerous reliance on foreign technology infrastructure.
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Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for global disruption that could have billion-dollar impact on Australia
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Experts say outage exposes ‘Australia’s reliance on foreign technology’ as software giant says services being restoredGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Microsoft outage could be a disaster for the Australian economy that forces some small businesses to close, with costs expected to run into the billions of dollars, experts have warned.The US software company has said it is “deeply sorry” for a widespread outage that caused disruption to millions of users, organisations and businesses across the globe – and that it has “addressed the underlying issue”. Continue reading...
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