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Outlook, Teams and More Microsoft Programs Disrupted by Outage
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The outage’s effects extended beyond Microsoft customers: airlines IndiGo and CemAir reported email or system problems, while OpenAI and Anthropic said they had trouble connecting to Microsoft services. Microsoft said there was no indication of malicious activity.
The disruption began on Thursday afternoon and affected Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other services used by hundreds of millions of people. More than 130,000 users reported problems around 1 p.m. Eastern, and Microsoft said recovery measures were not working as expected as elevated load affected several regions; it was redistributing traffic and restarting servers.
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- Airlines and AI firms also reported disruption linked to Microsoft services.
- Microsoft said there was no indication of malicious activity.
- Recovery efforts faced elevated load across multiple regions.
How this story developed
- 15 minutes ago A global Microsoft outage that began on Thursday afternoon continued into Friday, disrupting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other services used by hundreds of millions of people. Businesses, government agencies and individuals struggled to manage everyday work, highlighting how dependent organisations are on cloud-based tools.
- 16 minutes ago The outage’s effects extended beyond Microsoft customers: airlines IndiGo and CemAir reported email or system problems, while OpenAI and Anthropic said they had trouble connecting to Microsoft services. Microsoft said there was no indication of malicious activity.
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