Microsoft outage hits 130 million users across 74 countries

A global Microsoft outage has disrupted services including Teams, Outlook, and Copilot, leaving millions of users without email access for over 12 hours. The disruption affects more than 130 million users across 74 countries, according to BBC reporting on Friday morning. Microsoft has assured the public that the issue was not caused by a cyberattack or malicious activity. Microsoft stated that changes intended to improve services and fix the outage are not progressing as expected, and it is testing alternative solutions. The outage has also impacted other major platforms, with OpenAI and Anthropic reporting connectivity issues with Microsoft services.