From Financialexpress · Ashima Grover · · 40s
Microsoft Outage Hits Global Services
Microsoft's Outlook and Teams face global outage as fixes 'not going as expected'.
In brief
Microsoft's Outlook and Teams face global outage as fixes 'not going as expected'. Microsoft's Outlook and Teams services are experiencing a global outage affecting 74 countries with recovery efforts delayed. Originally reported by Financialexpress.
Microsoft Outage Begins
Microsoft faces prolonged outage affecting Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 services globally.
Global Impact
Disruptions reported in 74 countries within one hour of outage start.
User Disruption
Over 140,000 Outlook users reported issues, more than 2,000 times normal levels.
Microsoft Response
Microsoft states fixes are 'not going as expected' with gradual recovery expected.
“are not taking as expected”
Not a Cyber Attack
Australia's cybersecurity minister says outage resembles CrowdStrike update failure, not cyber attack.
“do not believe they are dealing with a cyber event”
The main idea
Microsoft's Outlook and Teams services are experiencing a global outage affecting 74 countries with recovery efforts delayed.
