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A Microsoft outage this week lasted nearly 24 hours and affected millions of users in more than 70 countries, including government agencies, airlines, hospitals and small businesses. The disruption has prompted questions about the risks of depending on one technology provider for essential services. France 24 published an analysis by Marcel Saucet, a research associate at the University of San Diego School of Law, asking whether society has become too reliant on technology. The piece did not add new technical details about the cause of the outage.