microsoft outage, because another microsoft product that was affected by it is called as your, a cloud computer platform. you might not be aware of it sitting in front of your computer, but a lot of big businesses use it, it is a rival to amazon web services, and they use it not only for storing big amounts of data but also for that extra compute in power. so, something like that goes down and it will affect businesses all over the place. and it is taken quite a long time for this to be resolved. microsoft says that things are changing and that people are reporting improvements, but it has been several hours now, and not everybody is back online. the funeral is being held for a woman who was shot on christmas eve in a pub in wallasey. 26 year old ellie edwards was not the intended target of a gunman who opened fire at the lighthouse pub. connor chapman, who s 22, has been charged with murder and is due to stand trial injune.