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'Not going as expected': Microsoft global outage continues to hit email, other apps

'Not going as expected': Microsoft global outage continues to hit email, other apps

Microsoft platforms were hit by widespread outage, including Outlook, with many users experiencing trouble using their email accounts from Thursday. Close to 1,30,000 users reported an issue on outage tracker Downdetector, with users complaining about accessing Outlook at about 1 pm on Thursday. New reports have fallen

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. The Straits Times World News
    Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook and Teams for thousands, including S’pore users

    Microsoft said it was still working to return affected servers to service.

  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. Mirror - UK News
    Is Outlook down? Microsoft outage impacts emails, Teams and Copilot

    Microsoft users reported being unable to send or receive emails on Outlook this evening, while others are struggling to load their inboxes altogether

  6. www.theregister.com - Articles
    Microsoft struggling to fix massive cloud outage that's taken down email and Intune

    Microsoft is struggling to restore many of its cloud services after a core process running on some servers became “overwhelmed” and its attempts to fix the problem failed.The incident started at aroun

  7. The Verge
    Microsoft Outlook is still down

    Since just before 1PM ET on Thursday, reports have come in from around the world that people can't access their Outlook email, either through the web or apps. Microsoft quickly acknowledged the issue

  8. 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

  9. Top stories - Google News
    Outlook email outage: Microsoft continuing to work on problem - The National

    Outlook email outage: Microsoft continuing to work on problem  The NationalMicrosoft outage: Outlook and Teams impacted globally as company struggles to restore service  BBC‘Looks like we’ll have to t

  10. Denver business news, startups, financial information | The Denver Post
    Microsoft outages affecting Colorado law enforcement, business

    A widespread Microsoft outage is affecting businesses, schools and law enforcement agents across Colorado, disrupting everything from emails to bond payments for those who have been arrested. The Arap

  11. World news | The Guardian
    Microsoft begins restoring services as global outage affects Outlook and Teams

    Recovery process under way, company says, after nearly 130,000 users worldwide reported access issuesMicrosoft outage – live updatesMicrosoft 365, Outlook, Teams and other apps were disrupted for thou

  12. India Today | Latest Stories
    Global outage hits Microsoft, Outlook, Teams down for 10 hours; company responds

    Global outage hits Microsoft Outlook Teams down for hours company responds

  13. The Hindu: Latest News today from India and the World, Breaking news, Top Headlines and Trending News Videos.
    Widespread outage hits Microsoft apps

    Microsoft said that a portion of its infrastructure was “experiencing elevated load” — which it said was “likely contributing to the connectivity errors”; it determined a number of servers were “unexp

  14. 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

  15. Bangkokpost.com : Top Stories
    Global outage hits Microsoft Outlook

    WASHINGTON — Microsoft Outlook suffered a major outage across the world Thursday, with tens of thousands of users struggling to access their email as the company said it was working "aggressively" to

  16. Gizmodo
    Microsoft 365 Outage Stretches Late Into the Evening, With Services Like Outlook and Teams Still Unstable

    Microsoft 365 services were unavailable for much of the workday, and remained so into the night.

  17. News - South China Morning Post
    Microsoft Outlook outage disrupts workers in Hong Kong’s financial sector

    The temporary outage of Microsoft’s office software Outlook disrupted employees’ work in Hong Kong’s financial sector on Friday morning. After workers found the software was down, some staff had to wo

  18. The Independent
    Is Outlook down? Widespread outage hits Microsoft and OpenAI

    ‘We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact,’ Microsoft said in a statement

  19. Times of India
    'Changes applied to fix outage are not working as expected,' says Microsoft

    Microsoft is currently experiencing an outage affecting its email and cloud services due to server failures. Nearly 130,000 users worldwide have reported connectivity issues with Outlook and Teams. Th

  20. deccanherald
    'Not going as expected': Microsoft global outage continues to hit email, other apps

    Microsoft platforms were hit by widespread outage, including Outlook, with many users experiencing trouble using their email accounts from Thursday. Close to 1,30,000 users reported an issue on outage

  21. Just In
    Top national security adviser warned of Microsoft risks months ago

    Months before today's Microsoft outage, Australia's top national security adviser warned the government about the country's reliance on Microsoft, saying it created a risk of "disproportionate impact"

  22. All Content from Business Insider
    The Microsoft outage is disrupting email. These business leaders barely use it anyway.

    People affected by the outage took to social media to urge Microsoft to resolve the issue so they could get back to work.

  23. BBC News
    Watch: How Microsoft services went down around the world

    Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems".

  24. World
    Microsoft races to restore services after global outage

    Issue affecting Outlook, Teams and other services not caused by ‘malicious or cyber activity’, company says

  25. Quartz
    Microsoft 365 outage stretches into a second day with Outlook and Teams disrupted

    Microsoft is working to restore service as the outage disrupts government offices, traders and businesses in more than 70 countries

  26. MercoPress
    Microsoft restores services after a global outage hit Outlook and Teams in more than 70 countries

    Microsoft said on Friday its services were recovering after a global outage that began on Thursday afternoon, European time, and for hours affected millions of users in more than 70 countries, includi

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