Outlook not so good! Office workers show sense of humour as they react to Microsoft meltdown with hilarious memes

A global Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, Copilot and Microsoft 365, prompting office workers to share jokes and memes while the company worked to restore services. The incident matters because these tools underpin work across businesses and public services, including government, police and healthcare organisations.

The outage began at 6pm GMT on Thursday and continued into Friday, lasting more than 12 hours at the time of the article. Microsoft’s suite has more than 430 million users, though the company had not said how many were affected; online reactions included jokes about “Microsoft 364”, Clippy’s revenge and a return to fax machines.