Microsoft restores services after global outages hit Teams, Outlook and Copilot

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Microsoft continued restoring services on Friday after outages disrupted Teams, Outlook, Copilot and some cloud services worldwide, with no evidence of cyber activity reported. The first disruption spike hit UK users around 6:15pm Thursday, with issues persisting into early Friday. Microsoft executive vice-president Charles Lamanna confirmed no malicious cause, while servers repeatedly crashed overnight despite restoration attempts and traffic rerouting. OpenAI also reported problems with Microsoft connectors affecting new connections. Governments in Australia, India and Japan noted outages, and Microsoft faced criticism after its status page failed to load for some users.


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