1
: a quantity or bulk of something lost in transportation or storage
2
a
: a failure or interruption in use or functioning
b
: a period of interruption especially of electric current
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An earlier outage, which affected a swath of users just as the first-ever Oscars to be livestreamed was beginning, hampered Disney’s effort to provide a younger-skewing digital complement to its main broadcast on ABC.
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Tom Tapp, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2025
The outage monitoring site also got smaller amounts of reports of problems at the Microsoft Store and Microsoft Azure, the software giant's cloud computing platform.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Shortly after the outage began, guests received a notification in their room explaining what was happening.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Users also flooded social media site X complaining about their inability to access their Outlook emails, prompting concerns of a global Microsoft outage.
—Pia Singh,tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2025
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Tom Tapp, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2025
The outage monitoring site also got smaller amounts of reports of problems at the Microsoft Store and Microsoft Azure, the software giant's cloud computing platform.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Shortly after the outage began, guests received a notification in their room explaining what was happening.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Users also flooded social media site X complaining about their inability to access their Outlook emails, prompting concerns of a global Microsoft outage.
—Pia Singh,tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Outage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outage. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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