Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook for thousands of users worldwide

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Tens of thousands of users worldwide faced difficulties accessing Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook email, on Thursday evening due to an outage. Microsoft initially investigated reports in the Americas before confirming the connection issue could affect all users globally. Downdetector recorded nearly 130,000 problem reports shortly after 18:00 GMT, with about 50,000 still reporting issues three hours later. The company paused deployments, offloaded affected infrastructure, and restarted servers to restore service. The outage also disrupted AI assistants like Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT, and forced the University of Iowa hospital network to direct patients to its online portal.


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