Microsoft outage leaves an unanswered question: which emails are missing?
CBC News's live report follows the disruption from affected servers to Canadian workers and students facing deadlines, with restoration continuing into Friday.
Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 136,272 views.
Microsoft says services slowly being restored after widespread outages | Hanomansing Live
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- 0:11Galashan says Microsoft has been investigating for hours without establishing the outage's cause.
- 0:20Exchange Online users may face disruption to email, calendars and contacts.
- 1:05Microsoft has limited server traffic, with its updates describing effects across multiple regions throughout the Americas.
- 2:29Viewer messages from three Canadian cities bring the disruption's everyday consequences into the discussion.
- 3:23Hanomansing and Galashan discuss students and workers facing deadlines while services remain disrupted.
"You don't know what emails you're not receiving," CBC News reporter Sarah Galashan tells Ian Hanomansing. It is the uncertainty behind the Microsoft outage: an inbox that looks quiet may not be telling the whole story.
Their Hanomansing Live segment follows widespread disruption affecting users in Canada and the United States. Microsoft's Exchange Online service, which handles email, calendars and contacts, is central to Galashan's explanation. She reports that the company has restricted traffic to affected servers, with its updates describing problems across multiple regions throughout the Americas.
At the time of the broadcast, Galashan says Microsoft has spent hours investigating without establishing the cause. The discussion then moves from service notices to everyday consequences, drawing on messages from viewers in Fredericton, Vancouver and Charlottetown. University students and workers with deadlines feature in the conversation about how much depends on those tools functioning.
The upload has drawn about 136,000 views in its first fourteen hours. Its restoration headline is not an all-clear: in a separate Friday update, CBC reports Microsoft's statement that services are gradually returning on the outage's second day, following disruption to products including Outlook, Teams and Copilot.
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