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Global Microsoft Outage Leaves Dutch Users without Email - DutchNews.nl
More than 130,000 users reported Outlook problems as Microsoft worked to restore Exchange Online and other Microsoft 365 services.
- On Friday, Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot experienced a worldwide outage affecting hundreds of millions of users. More than 130,000 users reported access problems on Downdetector earlier on Thursday.
- Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Friday that Microsoft officials in Sydney denied the outage was a cyberattack, likening it to the 2024 CrowdStrike update failure that grounded flights and disrupted banks globally.
- Singapore's Government Technology Agency, Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Masanao Ozaki, and The Philippines' Supreme Court reported email disruptions. Hong Kong businessperson Danny Lau warned the outage could "impact the production timeline" for his aluminum firm.
- Air India and IndiGo reported email support disruptions, though flight operations remained unaffected. Texas-based Workhorse Group Inc. delayed its quarterly earnings conference call due to the outage.
- OpenAI and Anthropic reported connection problems with Microsoft tools, showing ripple effects as AI platforms depend on broader software infrastructure. Microsoft's latest updates offered little hope for quick resolution as engineers struggled to identify the underlying cause.
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A major technical malfunction in Microsoft's infrastructure disrupted a number of its digital services around the world, including the e-mail, the Tims platform and the Microsoft 365 package.
The company reported an improvement on Friday morning after several attempts to restore it failed to produce lasting results. The cause of the error is still under investigation.
·Budapest, Hungary
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Watch Microsoft Outage: Tech Giant Struggles to Restore Access to Software
Microsoft is racing to restore access to its flagship software half a day after an outage began, leaving users unable to access email and chat services in one of the tech giant’s most severe disruptions in recent memory. Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom has the latest.
·New York, United States
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