Thursday afternoon many companies as well as their employees were thrown off when Microsoft went down, leaving millions of people and businesses without access to Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and Copilot. Many employees went to bed praying last night that the outage would last at least until Friday at 5:00pm. But NOPE, GET BACK TO WORK. Microsoft is back up but with a few hiccups.
Microsoft said it is seeing “encouraging recovery progress” in an hours long outage that has affected millions around the world. The tech giant warns some users may still “experience intermittent issues.” Disrupted operations spanned 74 countries, impacting banks, health services, schools, courts, and corporate offices worldwide.
Microsoft says the outage was not caused by a cybersecurity breach. Microsoft reported that a process on its servers responsible for establishing secure connections became overwhelmed and stopped processing requests, causing a cascading failure across core infrastructure.