Microsoft's global outage hits Outlook, Teams, and Copilot across 74 countries

Microsoft's global outage affecting Outlook, Teams, and Copilot remains unresolved as repair measures failed, impacting users across 74 countries and territories. The disruption stems from high infrastructure load, causing connectivity errors in Microsoft 365 services. Downdetector reported widespread outages across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, with New Zealand confirming email disruptions affecting its embassies worldwide. Microsoft observed limited service recovery after redirecting traffic from affected servers, though no full restoration timeline was provided. Thousands of users reported issues with Teams and Copilot, with outage reports declining in Washington and Hong Kong.