Microsoft's Outlook outage hits 74 countries as emergency fixes fail

bfmtv.com (French) —

Microsoft's Outlook email service has been down for over eight hours globally, and the company says its emergency fixes are not working as intended. The outage affects users across 74 countries. The disruption impacts Microsoft 365 services, including Teams, and has forced the University of Iowa hospital network to direct patients to an online portal. AI assistants Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT are also affected as they cannot access Microsoft accounts. Microsoft has paused deployments and is restarting affected servers while exploring alternative solutions. Outlook remains inaccessible in France on both computers and smartphones.


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