Microsoft outage drags on for five hours; 1.38 lakh Outlook complaints reported in US as disruption hits Teams, Copilot

Tech giant Microsoft struggled to restore access to some of its workplace software on Thursday (local time), nearly five hours after the outage began, warning that users might still face difficulties accessing services such as its email and chat platforms.

Bloomberg reported that the disruption affected services such as Outlook, Teams, and Copilot, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) service, for a significant part of the US workday.