Microsoft's Global Outage Hits Outlook, Teams, and Copilot for Over 12 Hours

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Microsoft is struggling to resolve a global outage affecting services like Outlook, Teams, and Copilot, with repairs "not taking as expected" after over 12 hours of disruption. Users worldwide report issues accessing email, instant messaging, OneDrive, and Office365. Microsoft attributes the problem to servers becoming "unexpectedly unavailable," causing elevated load, and has confirmed no indication of malicious or cyber activity. The company is pausing deployments, moving traffic off affected infrastructure, and restarting servers. Xbox services remain unaffected, and Microsoft continues to pursue alternative workstreams to restore full service.


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