Microsoft services restored after global outage affecting Outlook and Teams
Microsoft services, including Outlook email, experienced global outages on Thursday, with the company confirming connectivity issues affecting Microsoft 365 users worldwide. The disruption lasted about an hour, with over 120,000 users reporting problems accessing inboxes and sending or receiving emails by 7:30 PM Italian time. Teams, Copilot AI, and other Microsoft 365 services also saw thousands of complaints. Microsoft suspended deployments and restarted affected servers, with service gradually recovering. Microsoft attributed the issues to high infrastructure load in several regions, particularly affecting Exchange Online mailboxes in America. The outage also impacted AI providers OpenAI and Anthropic, which reported problems with their Microsoft connectors.