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Microsoft Outage Drives Japan Back to Fax for Emergency Comms

A global Microsoft outage disrupted digital services, prompting Japanese businesses and local governments to revert to fax machines for critical communications. This highlights Japan's persistent reliance on legacy technology as a resilience measure, though it underscores systemic fragility in digital-dependent workflows.

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Proceso Digital1 day agoJP, USCredibility 13%View source

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Mosaic Score6.4
Model confidence0.5
Significance0.5
Source credibility0.1

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