A widespread global outage has disrupted several Microsoft services, including Outlook, Teams, Copilot and Microsoft 365, with hundreds of thousands of users reporting problems on outage-tracking website Downdetector.
Microsoft Confirms Disruption
Microsoft has confirmed that its initial efforts to resolve the disruption have not gone as expected. Executive vice-president Charles Lamanna ruled out a cyberattack, confirming that the company was working to restore services as quickly as possible.
Latest Service Update
In its latest service update, Microsoft said: "We've monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as expected."
"We're identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity in the face of sustained traffic management imbalances."
Microsoft said it will be providing the latest updates via its live blog.
