Microsoft Outlook Outage Disrupts Australian Workplaces
· World · ABC News (AU), Bloomberg, BBC News
A global Microsoft Outlook outage struck Australia on Friday morning, disrupting email and other services used by hundreds of millions of workplaces worldwide. Australian Catholic University's IT discipline head Niusha Shafiabady said the incident exposed how dependent Australian businesses are on overseas technology infrastructure. Microsoft confirmed issues with Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, and multiple other 365 services including Copilot 365 and Power BI, and reported a gradual recovery beginning at 9am AEST. By Friday afternoon, no long-term fix had been found despite intermittent reports of partial service restoration.
Why it matters
Australian businesses and government agencies faced cascading operational halts as Outlook remained down, revealing critical vulnerability to foreign-controlled digital infrastructure.
Read the original report — ABC News (AU)
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