Microsoft 365 outage disrupts global users for over 13 hours

Microsoft is working to resolve a major outage affecting Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services for over 13 hours. The incident has disrupted businesses, schools, and government agencies worldwide, with peak complaints exceeding 131,000 for Outlook alone. The company attributed the failure to unavailable server hardware, which increased load on remaining infrastructure. Engineers paused updates, redirected traffic, and restarted affected servers, but restored systems failed again. No malicious activity has been detected, according to Microsoft. The outage has caused significant global disruption, including early workplace departures in the US and IT issues for Japanese authorities. Australian businesses faced printing and delivery problems, while courts experienced broadcast interruptions. This follows similar incidents in August and July 2024, which previously impacted stock prices.