Microsoft fails to resolve global outage affecting tens of thousands of users

A massive technical failure paralyzing popular Microsoft services has continued for over eight hours. According to the company, current attempts to rectify the situation have not been successful, as expected.

Affected services and scale of the problem

Connectivity issues have caused disruptions to critical tools for business and daily communication. Specifically, the following were hit:

• Teams
• Outlook
• Copilot (AI software)

According to monitoring site data, the incident has taken on an international character, affecting users in 74 countries. Meanwhile, Microsoft emphasizes that the outage is unlikely to be the result of a cyberattack.

Context

Microsoft is an American technology corporation, the developer of the Windows operating system and a wide range of software and cloud services.