Microsoft Outlook outage reported by thousands of users on Monday
THE SO WHAT
Another mass Outlook outage is a reminder that SaaS email is a single point of failure for most enterprises. If you don’t have a tested fallback for comms—secondary MX, alt channels, incident playbooks—you’re still treating email as infallible infrastructure instead of a dependency to hedge.
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