Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook, Teams, and Copilot for hours worldwide

A massive Microsoft outage has disrupted cloud services worldwide, cutting off businesses and consumers from Outlook, Teams, and Copilot for hours. The company is struggling to resolve persistent technical issues affecting its Microsoft 365 suite. Microsoft initially reported problems with Exchange mailboxes in the United States, but the warning quickly expanded to global users. Engineers attempted to reroute data traffic and restart servers, but systems reportedly crashed again under load, with fixes showing limited success. This marks the second major outage in recent months, following a similar email service failure in late August. Microsoft attributed that previous blackout to a cloud infrastructure problem, and the current incident's resolution timeline remains unclear.