Massive Microsoft Service Outage Disrupts Airlines

Massive Microsoft Service Outage Disrupts Airlines and Microsoft 365 Users

On Thursday, a major cloud service outage by Microsoft caused significant disruptions, affecting airlines and millions of users globally

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The outage, which impacted Microsoft's Azure and 365 services, led to the grounding and cancellation of several flights in the United States

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Frontier Airlines, part of Frontier Group Holdings, reported that the "major Microsoft technical outage" temporarily crippled its operations

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