Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Microsoft 365 and Azure experience outages; users report problems accessing sites and services, and the company says it is investigating— Microsoft was hit by outages in its Azure cloud and 365 services on Wednesday, hours before the company’s scheduled earnings release.
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