Global Microsoft outage drags into a second day
Outlook, Teams and Copilot problems have spread from US users to Asia-Pacific offices; the company has given no confirmed restoration time.
A disruption of Microsoft 365 services — including Outlook, Teams and Copilot — reached Asia-Pacific business hours on Friday after first hitting thousands of users in the United States. The company says server problems are to blame.
Government agencies in Australia, Japan and the United States were affected, as were companies including OpenAI and Anthropic. Email disruption continues in several regions through Outlook and Exchange Online, while some Teams and Copilot users still report trouble.
Microsoft says it applied adjustments to the affected servers, but they did not produce lasting recovery: partial improvement was seen in some regions, while other servers became unresponsive again. The company said on X that it is reviewing further steps to improve overall infrastructure stability.
According to the updates, the root cause lies in server infrastructure and connection-processing systems, and there is no indication of a cyberattack. No confirmed completion time has been announced.
It is the second disruption to Microsoft 365 this year, which, as the report notes, is raising concerns among corporate clients about reliability.
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