'We're at the whim of Microsoft': APS staff left in dark on major outage
- Newsrooms
- 25
- Last 3 hours
- 16 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Slowing. Likely 27 to 33 newsrooms by 4:53pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 99% of the past week’s 4204 stories, and number 23 of 1965 in News.
1Everybody’s working for the weekend, but Microsoft Outlook clocked out early. The mission-critical email service is facing a widespread outage. more…
The Canberra Times didn’t include a summary, so this is 9to5Mac’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows and has since expanded into areas such as Internet services, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and video gaming among others.4
The story so far
25 newsrooms- Reports
- 36
- Newsrooms and sources
- 25
- Last 3 hours
- 16
First with it: Metro, 24 min before anyone else.
Reported by 25 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The West Australian, PerthNow, 7NEWS (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 25
- Reports
- 36
- Over
- 5.4 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 33 min

