Live: Microsoft outage affects users worldwide, impacting Teams, Outlook and Copilot

Here is a summary of the day’s events:

• Microsoft reported a major outage, saying earlier this morning it was “aggressively pursuing” methods to fix the problem.
• The outage is affecting several Microsoft Suite platforms, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot.
• A later update said the problem was caused by a “large number” of servers being made “unexpectedly unavailable”.
• Microsoft later said it was able to get a “subset” of servers back online and was working to apply those changes more broadly.