Microsoft's global outage hits Outlook, Teams, and Copilot for over 12 hours

Microsoft is struggling to resolve a global outage affecting Outlook, Teams, and other services for over 12 hours, admitting initial repair efforts are not working as expected. The company attributes the issue to servers becoming unexpectedly unavailable, causing strain on remaining capacity, not a cyberattack. Microsoft has paused deployments and is restarting affected servers to restore service. Copilot AI is also impacted, while Xbox remains unaffected. Microsoft executives confirm no malicious activity is indicated, and the company continues seeking alternative solutions.