The Microsoft outage that began Thursday has stretched into Friday morning, leaving Outlook, Teams and Copilot unreachable for millions of users at businesses and government agencies across the globe. Microsoft claims it is making “encouraging recovery process” but has not fully repaired the systems that many organizations rely on to conduct business.
\n\nThe New York Post reports that Microsoft said the disruption stemmed from server problems and that it had seen no signs of a cyberattack. By Friday, the company reported “signs of stabilization” after rolling out fixes more broadly. By then the outage had already rippled through trading firms, airlines, shipping companies and government offices on multiple continents.
\n\nGovernment agencies in Australia, Japan and the United States were among those affected. Australia’s spy agency and federal police were caught up in the outage, and the U.S. House of Representatives said its users had been hit, with engineers working alongside Microsoft to resolve the problem. Tony Burke, Australia’s Cyber Security Minister, described the scope of the damage: “The impact that they are dealing with … is very much on email systems.”
\n\nThat email disruption, tied to Microsoft’s Exchange Online messaging platform, which handles email, calendar, contacts and tasks, became the…
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