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The mortgage industry tag on WindowsForum.com currently centers on how cloud and email outages affect mortgage professionals, especially brokers who depend on Microsoft 365 for daily communication. A tagged thread examines the November 2026 Microsoft 365 disruption and its uneven impact on Canadian mortgage brokers, drawing on broker interviews reported by Canadian Mortgage Professional. The discussion highlights a practical risk for the mortgage industry: reliance on a single cloud provider can interrupt email and transaction workflows even for organizations that never deal with that provider directly. Coverage here is limited but focused on business continuity and third-party service dependencies rather than lending policy or market rates.
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    Microsoft 365 Outage Exposes Email Blind Spots for Canadian Mortgage Brokers

    A major Microsoft 365 outage disrupted cloud service access on November 12 and continued into November 13, 2026. The cloud problem is easy to picture. Canada's mortgage industry is a less obvious place to look, and it shows how one provider's failure can spread to people who never use that...