Outlook is down. A partner called me to ask me to research if this constitutes force majeure. What is this job?

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Is outlook down for everyone? Someone deserves a medal for this if so.

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Our outlook is down only wrt inbound external emails

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lol I feel pretty strongly that no email for a finite period is not an act of God like a hurricane

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Still glitchy here. More importantly, what does your research show?

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Yes my firm’s was down as well since 1:12 pm EST. I last checked around 5:20pm and no incoming emails came in

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Yes, please share the research.

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Still down at Orrick. Anywhere else?

I think it was fixed about 8 hours ago? All my missing emails came through between 9-10 est.

i thought it was just our company, looks like outliok was down enteprise wide

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