By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on France 24
Microsoft confirmed on Friday that its Teams, Outlook and Copilot services had been fully restored, ending a worldwide outage that had paralysed business and government communications for more than 24 hours. According to the US homeland security chief, there is “no Microsoft link” to the flight stoppage that occurred in the United States.
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A global Microsoft outage is disrupting Outlook and Teams in 74 countries and affecting the gaming authority in Mauritius.
14 NovMicrosoft 365 outage lasts 22 hours, affecting around 430 million users
13 NovMicrosoft blames global outage on network change
13 NovMicrosoft apologises for global outage, rules out cyberattackA global Microsoft 365 outage disrupted its services in more than 70 countries for over 22 hours, according to Africanews. Outlook, Teams and Copilot were among the affected services, and Microsoft ruled out a cyberattack while struggling to restore full access.
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Microsoft attributes its global outage of Outlook, Teams and Copilot to a problem that arose after a network change. The company says it has fixed the cause and is continuing to restore services, according to a statement from Microsoft reported by Vanguard.
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Microsoft is struggling to restore several services, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, after a global outage affecting tens of thousands of users. Reports of problems with Outlook peaked at nearly 140,000 on Thursday around 18:00 GMT, according to MyJoyOnline.
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A global Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot for tens of thousands of users in 74 countries and territories. Microsoft said heavy loads on its infrastructure were complicating service recovery, which remained limited several hours after the incident began, according to France 24.
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