Major Microsoft Outage Disables Services Worldwide

A major disruption in Microsoft's infrastructure led to a global halt of email services and video conferencing systems. The incident affected key corporate tools, including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot, as well as impacted the operations of government agencies and private companies worldwide.

Critical failures affected not only Microsoft 365 users but also external platforms. The infrastructure of giants like Anthropic and OpenAI was hit due to their reliance on Microsoft Azure cloud services.

According to incident monitoring data, approximately 130,000 user complaints were recorded at the peak of the issue. The outage paralyzed the work of British police, preventing online report submissions, and disrupted customer support services for airlines.

• The governments of Singapore and Japan faced difficulties exchanging documents via official email
• Customer support services for airlines were fully or partially suspended
• British police lost the ability to accept reports electronically

Company engineers are working to restore servers, but initial attempts to fix the situation failed. The first changes made did not work as expected, delaying the full restoration of the service.

To track the status of service recovery, you can use the official source: Microsoft Service Health.