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Microsoft 365 services were still recovering on Friday after a prolonged outage disrupted email, Teams and Copilot, The Register reports. The incident has prompted fresh warnings that organisations can struggle to switch providers when essential work depends on one ecosystem.
Why it mattersNextcloud co-founder Jos Poortvliet and Civo chief executive Mark Boost told the publication that provider failures are inevitable, but concentration leaves businesses exposed. Commons Science and Technology Committee chair Dame Chi Onwurah said the outage highlighted risks to the UK’s digital infrastructure and public services. For organisations, the argument is less about whether a provider will fail than whether backup systems can keep work moving when it does. The fax machine is having an unexpectedly strong week.
Discuss: Should organisations pay for independent backup systems, even when keeping a second provider ready is costly?
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