Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams outages hit thousands of users

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Thousands of Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams users experienced service outages on Thursday, according to Downdetector.com, with over 97,000 incidents reported for Outlook alone by 2:07 p.m. Eastern Time. The disruption also affected connectors used by OpenAI and Anthropic's AI services. Microsoft said it was actively exploring options to limit impacts, suspending deployments, redirecting traffic, and restarting affected servers. Earlier, Microsoft said it fixed a Teams outage for North American clients, but later noted the issue could affect Microsoft 365 connectivity in other regions. OpenAI and Anthropic both reported investigating related connectivity problems.


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