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Practical advice for running and growing a South African small business.

Microsoft vs Google: five years of outages, stacked side by side

After this week's Microsoft 365 outage in South Africa, I stacked five years of official downtime records for Microsoft 365…

5 hours ago

Load-shedding, Microsoft outages and cash-flow crunches: how to keep selling when everything breaks

Power cuts, email outages, a client who pays 90 days late. South African businesses get all three, sometimes in the…

13 hours ago

Microsoft 365 is down this morning: what’s broken for South African businesses, and what still works

A global Microsoft 365 outage is hitting Outlook and related tools in South Africa this morning, 13 November 2026. What's…

17 hours ago