Microsoft Shares Fall Amid Widespread Outage
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Microsoft Shares Fall Amid Widespread Outage

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 13, 20262 min
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  • Business & money

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Here's your morning brief for Friday, November 13th. I'm Luke Fargus for The Wall Street Journal. Shares of Microsoft are down pre-market as the company continues to try and fix a widespread outage to its services, including Outlook and Teams, affecting users in more than 70

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countries. Microsoft said that problems began surfacing at around 1pm Eastern yesterday and that despite its best efforts, changes made to improve its services aren't working as expected. According to outage tracker Down Detector, users are reporting a new wave of disruptions

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again this morning. Microsoft says it doesn't believe the outage is a cyberattack. The fallout from NVIDIA co-founder Jensen Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese spy is now threatening the job of one of President Trump's closest cabinet allies, Commerce

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