UPDATE 8-Microsoft's global outage eases after disrupting businesses, governments for nearly a day

* Microsoft says a broader roll-out of software fixes is stabilizing its systems, and the outage was easing on Friday * The outage lasted nearly a day, making it one of the longest in Microsoft's

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