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Source: The Columbian

Microsoft is reporting widespread improvements to its services after a global outage took them offline Thursday, disrupting communications and work at schools, government agencies and offices around the world. The company, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, said Friday that it was seeing an “encouraging recovery progress, with service availability and email delivery performance improving across a growing portion of affected infrastructure.”

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