Microsoft suffered an outage in the middle of the West Coast on Thursday, but then “stumbled back online,” TechCrunch reports. The episode affected Microsoft’s Xbox and Office services. 

Email is a widely used channel in the fiercely competitive travel industry. But is everyone doing it right? Here are six tips for creating winning travel campaigns. 

Punk rock icon Patti Smith has launched an email newsletter, working with email platform Substack. “Each week I will post my weekly ruminations, shards of poetry, music, and musings on whatever subject finds its way from thought to pen, news of the mind, pieces of this world, free to all,” Smith promises.