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In brief: The Microsoft 365 outage this week reportedly sent businesses, government agencies, and other organizations across Japan scurrying for old-school fax machines and landline phones to maintain normal operations. The outage, which has yet to be fully fixed, affects almost all of Microsoft's popular cloud services, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Copilot, and Xbox.

According to The Japan Times , workers across the country had to resort to age-old technologies to keep operating amid the outage, while organizations without analog backup plans were forced to stop work.…