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Several services across the world are affected by a Microsoft outage this morning (Friday, November 13).

Breaking Emergency services face disruption amid Microsoft outage

Microsoft offices

Microsoft outage continues to disrupt Lancashire users

More than 75 percent of organisations are not practicing disaster recovery plans in the recommended six-month timeframe.

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The pair’s expertise will help the company ensure businesses make trusted operational decisions with data

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The new system unifies mobile and Teams calling into one seamless platform

Vodafone and Microsoft unite calls with Teams Phone Mobile

The typical AI error rate hovered around 38%.

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Microsoft has announced it will shut down Skype on May 5.

Microsoft has shut down Skype as an era ends - here's why

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Business Briefing: Xbox prices rise and Harrods hit by cyber attack

Laptop hunters can find great deals in the Amazon Spring sale event

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Business in less than 2 minutes: Motorway services firm profits jump

TIBHS has been certified by Microsoft for the fourth consecutive year

TIBHS awarded Microsoft Showcase School Status for fourth consecutive year

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Could you have been using your laptop wrong this whole time. (Photo: Adobe)

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Microsoft Office is down for some users. Picture: Getty images

Microsoft users hit by major outage with Office down

Chantelle Mooney whose brain surgery was cancelled because of the Microsoft outage

My brain cancer surgery was cancelled because of the Microsoft outage
A cancer patient says surgery to remove a four-centimetre mass from her brain was cancelled this week - due to the worldwide IT glitch.
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Long queues at an airport.

Watch: Airport passengers sat on floor after global IT outage

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Global IT outage disrupts airlines, banks and appointments: what to do

Many supermarkets and shops in Lancashire, including Morrisons, Booths and SPAR, are only accepting cash after the IT outage affected their payment systems

Breaking Global IT outage: Lancs supermarkets and shops go 'cash only'

Visitors stand at the Xbox booth at the Gamescom video game fair in Cologne, Germany in August 2023 (Photo: INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

Xbox Summer Sale 2024 - start date, and what discounts can you expect?

Amazon Prime Day laptop deals. Photo: Amazon

7 jaw-dropping Prime Day deals on laptops with up to £650 savings

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Microsoft to add key features to app 41 years after launch

Weak passwords give hackers a way in (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Microsoft users warned their emails may have been hacked

'I'm a cybersecurity expert and here's why using AI chatbots is risky'

Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Windows and Devices Pavan Davuluri speaks about Recall. Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images

Microsoft u-turns on ‘complete nightmare’ AI feature

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 takes us back to the early 1990s

How to pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and the benefits you'll get

ARMSA Academy has hired James Akrigg as CTO for innovative technology

Former Microsoft Head of Technology for Partners Joins Local Firm
Manchester-based ARMSA Academy hires former Head of Technology for Partners, James Akrigg to develop digital innovation, h’alt®.
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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is the co-founder, executive chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms (previously Facebook, Inc.)

Breaking Meta announces plans for AI chatbots to be used on their platforms

Microsoft’s Call of Duty deal set to be approved

Xbox are hosting three days of livestream events from Gamescom 2023

Gamescom 2023: How to watch Xbox Live From the Show Floor

Xbox are hosting a Quakecon sale with huge savings on a number of games

Xbox Quakecon sale: discounts on games including Fallout 4

Xbox have launched a huge add-on sale with hundreds of savings

Xbox Ultimate Add-On Sale: Up to 60% discount on hundreds of DLC packs

Four games will be coming to the Xbox Game Pass in August

What’s coming to Xbox Game Pass in August 2023

Xbox have signed an agreement with PlayStation over Call of Duty

Xbox sign ‘binding agreement’ with PlayStation for Call of Duty

Xbox had an impressive Showcase event with the announcements of Fable, Starfield and Forza Motorsport

All games announced at Xbox Showcase 2023

Here are the games announced during the Xbox Showcase that will come to the PlayStation

What games will come to PlayStation from the Xbox Showcase

The Xbox Showcase is just days away and expectations are high from the Microsoft presentation

How to watch Xbox Showcase 2023

A cybercrime gang thought to be based in Russia has issued an ultimatum to victims of a mass hack (Photo: Getty Images)

BBC, BA and Boots issued with ultimatum by cyber gang Clop

Here’s everything coming to Xbox Game Pass in June 2023

What’s coming to Xbox Game Pass in June 2023 - including Dordogne

PlayStation have announced all their games coming for the next years, with 12 also coming to Xbox

Which PlayStation Showcase games will be available on the Xbox

The Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard has been approved by the EU

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger approved by EU

Xbox have announced their May 2023 update with four new changes

Everything included in the Xbox May 2023 update

We’re five months into the year but there is still lots to come in the gaming world

Biggest video games still set to to launch in 2023 on all consoles

The White House has summoned tech giants over AI fears

White House summons big tech bosses over AI fears

Xbox have revealed the date for their next Games showcase

Xbox announce upcoming Games Showcase date

Candles are lit around a photo of Nicola Bulley (left) and her partner Paul Ansell on an altar at St Michael's Church in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, as police continue their search for the missing mother of two.

Missing Nicola Bulley’s partner opens up in Channel 5 interview

Thousands of Microsoft Teams and Outlook users are facing issues this morning as the software provider investigates a networking outage.

Outlook and Teams go down for thousands of users

Microsoft has scrapped technical support for customers that use Windows 8.1

Microsoft warning after firm scraps technical support for some users

What's on your Christmas list this year?

These are the UK’s most Googled tech items for Christmas gifts

FW Capital has backed Airship Interactive of Lytham with £450,000 funding for expansion

Lancashire digital graphics frim set to take on 50 more staff

Netflix said the service will be an “addition” to its existing plans (Photo: Adobe)

Netflix partners with Microsoft for cheaper subscription plan with ads

Lancashire businesses have been give tips to impress judges to get them through to the awards ceremony at the BIBAs

Lancashire businesses given tips to impress judges in BIBAs awards

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