Microsoft Outlook outage puts Hong Kong’s financial sector on hold

A multihour outage of Microsoft’s office software Outlook, beginning on Friday morning, severely disrupted work in Hong Kong’s financial sector, according to staff members at several of the city’s investment banks. Some bankers from Goldman Sachs and Nomura said their work had been interrupted, the South China Morning Post learned. Many in Central, Hong Kong’s main financial district, had to work offline after the email service went down. “We haven’t been able to send or receive emails since the...