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Microsoft Outlook outage disrupts Hong Kong financial sector workers

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A temporary outage of Microsoft Outlook disrupted financial sector workers in Hong Kong on Friday morning. Employees from multiple banks, including Goldman Sachs and Nomura, reported being unable to send or receive emails, forcing some to work offline. The disruption affected operations for a significant period. AI

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Microsoft Outlook outage disrupts Hong Kong financial sector workers

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Tim Yuen Lingk ·

    Microsoft Outlook outage disrupts workers in Hong Kong’s financial sector

    The temporary outage of Microsoft’s office software Outlook disrupted employees’ work in Hong Kong’s financial sector on Friday morning. After workers found the software was down, some staff had to work offline, according to sources from multiple banks. Bankers from Goldman Sachs…

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