Microsoft outage explained: what went wrong and is your data at risk?

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Governments, doctor surgeries and even rival AI firms have been caught up, and the episode is sharpening questions about Europe's reliance on a handful of US tech giants.

A failure in part of Microsoft’s server infrastructure has cut people off from Outlook email, Teams and other everyday office tools for more than a day, with problems reported in 74 countries and territories.The disruption began on Thursday afternoon European time and was still not fully fixed on Friday morning. Microsoft says there is no sign of a cyber attack, but it has yet to name a root cause.Professor Tommaso Valletti at the Imperial Business School in London told Euronews Next "this outage will make many organisations ask whether they have a real contingency plan if their email and communications go down for a day."Here is what we know so far.What has happened since Thursday?Euronews…

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