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Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for thousands

Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for thousands

Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams and other apps of the company remained disrupted for thousands of users for more than five hours on Thursday, with the outage also hitting connectors used by OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI services. As of 6 p.m. ET, Microsoft said it was still working to return affected servers to service, an

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  1. Forbes - Innovation
    Microsoft Confirms Active Exploitation Of New Outlook Zero-Day

    Amongst 1,235 security flaws, 66 rated critical, disclosed by Microsoft this month, an already exploited Outlook zero-day demands your most urgent attention.

  2. Latest from TechRadar
    Microsoft is pulling free emails for schools, colleges, and universities

    Free Microsoft Exchange email provision is being pulled from Microsoft 365 EducationMicrosoft has refreshed its 365 Education portfolio, swapping its feature-packed free tier with a stripped back opti

  3. CBC | Top Stories News
    Microsoft says services being slowly restored after widespread outages across its platforms

    Microsoft said it was returning some of its affected servers to full service late Thursday afternoon, after widespread outages hit many of its platforms including Outlook, with users encountering trou

  4. Stuff - /
    Microsoft outage hits major NZ organisations including police, councils and Air NZ

    The global outage is impacting apps such as Outlook, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams and OneDrive.

  5. Business News Today: Latest Business News, Finance News
    Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 services

    Users reported difficulties accessing email accounts, sending messages and loading inboxes as disruptions spread across Microsoft’s workplace applications and services

  6. Korea Times News
    Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for thousands

    Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams and other apps of the company remained disrupted for thousands of users for more than five hours on Thursday, with the outage also hitting connectors used by OpenAI's and

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