Global Microsoft Outage Affects Millions of Users

A major Microsoft outage has disrupted digital services used by businesses, government agencies and millions of people worldwide.

The disruption affected Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, leaving users unable to access emails, files and other services.

Downdetector recorded around 140,000 reports of Outlook problems across 74 countries.

The outage affected essential services in the United Kingdom, India, New Zealand, Singapore and Australia, including medical practices, airlines and government agencies.

Microsoft ruled out a cyberattack, attributing the disruption to unusually high server loads after some infrastructure became unavailable.

The company said it had deployed a software fix and was seeing early signs of stabilisation by Friday morning, although service capacity had yet to return to normal.