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I suspect the situation is that most customers have already paid for the service, and would demand a refund if they can't reasonably use the service.


In general, not necessarily with Microsoft, the problem is that once people get their money back, then the vendor can't pay its bills and you have a potential for the whole economy to go into a seizure if enough people are like "oh, free market, sanctity of contracts" etc.

This is happening in real time: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/coronavirus-mall-owner-taubm...


Could extend this to large companies with multi-year cloud computing contracts with Azure




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