Is Microsoft down? Company investigates error reports as customers locked out of platforms including Outlook
Microsoft has been hit with a widespread global outage as users face disruptions across its online services including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and Copilot.
Microsoft has been hit with a widespread global outage as users face disruptions across its online services including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and Copilot.
Outage-monitoring website Downdetector recorded a sharp spike in reports about 4.30am AEST, with more than 120,000 users reporting problems with accessing email platform Outlook.
Microsoft has acknowledged the issues, saying it was “experiencing elevated load” across parts of it’s infrastructure in “any region”.
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