A massive Microsoft outage disrupting Outlook, Teams, and other 365 tools for nearly 130,000 users highlights the critical vulnerability of global business operations to single-vendor cloud infrastructure failures.
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An alert on Microsoft’s site said it was ‘aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact’ and blamed a server issueMicrosoft says it is “aggressively pursuing all pathways” after users reported issues accessing its 365 suite of programs, including Outlook and Teams.Outage website Down Detector showed a spike in Microsoft 365 problems, with nearly 130,000 reports of issues affecting access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams as well as enterprise services such as SharePoint and OneDrive. AI assistant Copilot was also affected. Continue reading...
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Microsoft's unexpected server outage disrupted critical services like Outlook and Teams, impacting tens of thousands of users and highlighting the fragility of reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure.
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