Hospitals, GPs, police forces and property agents have had to find a workaround for Microsoft packages
Countless businesses, schools, hospitals, and governments have found out the hard way what it means to rely on a single company’s systems to get things done. And next time could be even worse.
Microsoft rules out any malicious "cyber or AI" activity after a worldwide outage disrupted healthcare services, delayed corporate earnings reports and left schools struggling to communicate.
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The Microsoft outage shows no sign of resolution with millions still unable to access emails; Scott Bessent has attacked the Commerce Department over Nvidia. Follow live updates.
Microsoft has apologised for the issue, which it said was due to a technical failure.
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Outlook, Teams and Copilot remain disrupted in 74 countries as Microsoft reports ‘marginal success’ in fixing outage.
Some of Microsoft’s most popular products, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, stopped working across the world. Burt the company says it is seeing “encouraging recovery progress”.
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NHS suffering ‘serious’ and widespread disruption, while people are told of possible delays in receiving prescriptions
Some of Microsoft’s most popular products, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, stopped working across the world. Burt the company says it is seeing “encouraging recovery progress”.
A Microsoft outage is disrupting work for people around the world but some businesses are better prepared than others.
The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.
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Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems".
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The BBC's Nadine Yousif's reports that Microsoft services like Outlook are slowly coming back online, but the company noted users "may still experience intermittent access issues".
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We’re now into the second day of a global Microsoft Outlook outage that’s preventing people from accessing their emails, either through the web or apps. Hopefully it won’t reach a third day, however, as Microsoft reports that recovery efforts are going well. [Media: https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/2121172248241348867]
Microsoft’s global Outlook and Teams outage has passed 12 hours across 74 countries. The company says it’s not a cyberattack but has no sustained fix.