Microsoft outage disrupts businesses worldwide

A widespread global outage of Microsoft‘s workplace services disrupted businesses, government agencies and consumers across 74 countries on Friday, with problems persisting for a second day as the technology major struggled to restore its systems. The disruption affected Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams and Copilot, while also spilling over to artificial intelligence platforms OpenAI and Anthropic, whose services reported problems with their Microsoft 365 connectors.