Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for global disruption that could have billion-dollar impact on Australia
What happened
Microsoft is recovering from an outage of about 18 hours that knocked out Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other cloud services across dozens of countries, according to TechCrunch.
A monitoring website reported users affected in 74 countries, according to the BBC.
Microsoft has not named a cause, saying only that a large number of servers were unexpectedly unavailable; servers were failing automated health checks.
The company said it has no evidence of malicious activity and that the incident was not tied to cyber threats or AI agents.
To protect delayed mail, Microsoft extended the email timeout to 48 hours, and it promised a full post-incident report with the root cause.
Charles Lamanna, a Microsoft executive vice president, said recovery is progressing and the company is reviewing how to prevent similar failures.
“one of the biggest outages of all time”
Ars Technica
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