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World Service,13 Nov 2026,9 mins

Out of Office: Are we too reliant on Microsoft?

World Business Express

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It's estimated that half a billion people were hit by Microsoft's Outlook outage. Microsoft says today's disruption was due to an internal failure rather than an external attack. But are we over-reliant on this workplace favourite? Elsewhere we take stock of what's ahead for Nvidia after a torrid week of revelations about Jensen Huang and his links to a suspected Chinese spy. And we head to Pakistan to find out the practical wedding gift appearing on roofs across the country.

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