Microsoft Outlook outage disrupts workers in Hong Kong’s financial sector
The temporary outage of Microsoft’s office software Outlook disrupted employees’ work in Hong Kong’s financial sector on Friday morning. After workers found the software was down, some staff had to work offline, according to sources from multiple banks. Bankers from Goldman Sachs and Nomura said their work had been disrupted, the South China Morning Post learned. “We haven’t been able to send or…
A temporary outage of Microsoft’s Outlook software disrupted workers in Hong Kong’s financial sector on Friday morning. According to the South China Morning Post, employees at banks including Goldman Sachs and Nomura experienced disruptions, with some staff forced to work offline.
The Economic Times Tech reported that nearly 130,000 users on the outage tracker Downdetector reported issues accessing the software just after 1 pm. While reports had fallen from that peak, many users indicated they had trouble loading inboxes or were unable to send and receive emails.
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