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  "title": "Hours-Long Microsoft Outage Disrupts Businesses, Governments Globally",
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  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-13T13:40:47.000Z",
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    "name": "Insurance Journal",
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  "summary": "A more than 12-hour outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams crippled communications for businesses and governments globally on Friday, forcing some organizations to revert to fax machines and halting at least one bond repurchase in Europe. Microsoft said server issues …",
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        "title": "What the Microsoft Outlook outage reveals about risks, limitations and gaps in communication",
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        "outlet": "The Guardian US",
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        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
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        "outlet": "Dawn",
        "title": "Hours-long Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, governments globally",
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        "outlet": "Global News",
        "title": "Microsoft shares pressured on Friday as traders weigh outage’s impact",
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