Sessions are limited to 30-minutes long, with a few minutes of ads before the timer starts. The free streaming option is publicly available now, after testing earlier this year. In September, Microsoft also added an option to buy pay-as-you-go Cloud Gaming playtime and set Cloud Gaming hour limits for its Game Pass subscriptions. [Link: XBOX Cloud Gaming: Stream on Phone, TV, PC & More | https://www.xbox.com/en-US/cloud-gaming | XBOX]
Sessions are limited to 30-minutes long, with a few minutes of ads before the timer starts. The free streaming option is publicly available now , after testing earlier this year . In September, Microsoft also added an option to buy pay-as-you-go Cloud Gaming playtime and set Cloud Gaming hour limits for its Game Pass subscriptions.
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Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
Microsoft had over 450 million paid user licenses as of January 2026, all unable to access their emails for over 24 hours.
Experts say outage exposes ‘Australia’s reliance on foreign technology’ as software giant says services being restored
Some of Microsoft’s most popular products, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, stopped working across the world. Burt the company says it is seeing “encouraging recovery progress”.
Governments, businesses, individuals were disrupted globally as server failures stretch into second day.
The BBC's Nadine Yousif's reports that Microsoft services like Outlook are slowly coming back online, but the company noted users "may still experience intermittent access issues".
