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Microsoft Cloud Services Suffer Outages

Sep 8, 2010
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ZDNet: Microsoft Cloud Services Suffer Outages

ZDNet’s ‘All About Microsoft’ blog reports on recent “unplanned downtime” for

“Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and Exchange hosted services – now confirmed by Microsoft.


My post late last week about unplanned downtime for Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) seemingly has opened the floodgates for more similar reports.

On September 7, I began receiving notes from several customers of Microsoft’s hosted Online Services — which include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Communications Online, Live Meeting and the BPOS bundle of these services — of yet more access problems.”

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