Microsoft Announces Recovery After Long Outage
The company reports restoration across affected services.
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In this lesson: Interpret the scope and timing of Microsoft’s restoration statement.
Grammar in this story: Recovery completed before a statement
had restored
The past perfect links completed restoration to the later act of saying it had happened.
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Explain what the November 14 statement added to the account of the outage.
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It said service had been restored to the remaining affected customers and regions. This updated the earlier interruption of business and government communication; it described recovery, not a new outage.
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