Live: Microsoft 'aggressively pursuing' solution to major outage

Live: Microsoft 'aggressively pursuing' solution to major outage

A widespread outage has hit Microsoft platforms, including Outlook, preventing users from accessing emails. Follow live.

Good morning, thanks for joining us today. If you're one of the many people having troubles accessing your Outlook emails this morning, you're not alone! Microsoft, the company behind the email platform many people around the world rely on, is having a major outage at the moment. Microsoft confirmed the outage was affecting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other platforms. "We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact," the company said. "We're investigating what's causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service." Buckle up, we'll bring you more updates as they come to hand.

In brief

Good morning, thanks for joining us today. Microsoft, the company behind the email platform many people around the world rely on, is having a major outage at the moment. Microsoft confirmed the outage was affecting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other platforms. "We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact," the company said.

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