Microsoft 365 Outage Disrupts Outlook, Teams Globally

by · Inc42

SUMMARY

  • Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook and Teams, suffered a global outage lasting over 10 hours, with OpenAI and Anthropic's Microsoft connectors also affected
  • The disruption highlights the dependence of businesses and AI platforms on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure and the cascading impact of outages across connected services
  • Microsoft traced the outage to server failures and an overwhelmed core process but is yet to confirm a complete restoration despite multiple recovery efforts