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Japan’s government employees have been unable to access Outlook and other Microsoft products after a disruption to a shared network used across government agencies, Jiji Press reports, citing Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Masanao Ozaki.
Why it mattersOfficials have responded by making physical copies of documents, and say they are watching Microsoft’s response as the company works to resolve the outage. A service disruption has moved from the inbox to the photocopier, with consequences for routine government work.
Discuss: Should government agencies keep paper-based fallback procedures for essential work, even when maintaining them adds cost and effort?
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