Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams suffered a five-hour global outage on Thursday due to server issues, disrupting users and AI connectors.Microsoft logoThousands experience major disruptions amid Microsoft outageA widespread service failure at Microsoft left many users unable to reach Outlook, Teams, and other 365 apps for over five hours on Thursday. The problems also spilled over to tools that link OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI products to Microsoft’s software.Microsoft said a group of its servers went offline unexpectedly because of heavy load, and that the cause was not a jump in traffic. The company’s spokesperson said it was looking into user complaints, which centered on Exchange Online, the email backbone of the suite.Outage-tracking site Downdetector logged its highest volume of Outlook…Read More

Microsoft 365 Outage: Outlook, Teams, Copilot down for thousands
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