Microsoft "deeply regrets" problems caused by global outage of its services

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Microsoft apologized for the outage of several of its services that affected millions of users, companies and public entities in about seventy countries, according to Downdetector, and reported a "broad recovery". The company attributed the disruption, which began on Thursday due to "high load" on its infrastructure, to a technical problem unrelated to cybersecurity or artificial intelligence. Outlook was the most affected service, along with Teams and Copilot. The UK's NHS and New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported difficulties.

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Microsoft apologized for the disruption and said it was still restoring full operation of its products
The failure, which began on Thursday due to "high load" on its infrastructure, affected about seventy countries according to Downdetector
Outlook was the hardest-hit service, along with Teams and the Copilot assistant

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Microsoft "deeply regrets" problems caused by global outage of its services

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