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Watch: How the Microsoft outage affected North America

Watch: How the Microsoft outage affected North America

Summary

A Microsoft outage disrupted services including Teams, Outlook and Copilot for millions of people in more than 70 countries. Microsoft apologized, attributed the disruption to a technical issue rather than a cyberattack or AI-related issue, and said recovery was underway.

Key Facts

  • The outage affected millions of people across more than 70 countries.
  • Users reported disruptions to Microsoft Teams.
  • Users reported disruptions to Outlook.
  • Users reported disruptions to Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant.
  • Microsoft apologized for the disruption.
  • Microsoft linked the outage to a technical issue, not a cyberattack or an AI-related issue.
  • Microsoft said email delivery was improving, but intermittent issues could continue during recovery.
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