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Major disruption: Microsoft fully restores operation of Outlook and Teams

Meetings couldn't be properly planned, calendars were down: The Microsoft outage crippled central cloud services. The problems have been overcome.

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Major disruption: Microsoft fully restores operation of Outlook and Teams

Microsoft has resolved a global outage affecting its services, including Outlook and Teams, after over 24 hours. The US software company attributed the issue to server problems, which also impacted its AI assistant Copilot, and found no evidence of malicious activity. The outage, which started on Thursday evening, was one of the longest in Microsoft's history and significantly impacted businesses and authorities worldwide.

Hundreds of millions of users were unable to send emails, manage calendars, or hold video conferences.

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