What happened overnight with the Microsoft global outage
Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems".
Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems", BBC News reported.
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- United Kingdom · Europe
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- BBC News
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- Microsoft, Teams, Outlook, AI
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- Technology
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