Microsoft's Outlook outage disrupts users worldwide

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Microsoft's Outlook email service experienced a major outage Thursday evening, disrupting users worldwide. The incident affected access to mailboxes and Microsoft 365 connectivity across all regions. Downdetector recorded over 39,000 outage reports in the US by 7:00 PM and hundreds in France shortly after 6:30 PM local time. Microsoft confirmed the issue on X, citing high infrastructure load in multiple regions and began redistributing connection traffic globally. Earlier Thursday, Microsoft resolved a separate Teams outage affecting North American users. The disruption also impacted AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic, with over 97,000 Outlook reports logged by 9:00 PM Romanian time.


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