Microsoft hit by global outages

HONG KONG, NOV 13 (AP): From Asia to the US, Microsoft’s outage involving services like Outlook and Teams has dragged on for hours and impacted many users, companies and some government operations as the technology giant struggled with fixing the issue.
Microsoft said in an update Friday that the outage was affecting a wide range of Microsoft 365 offerings that interact with its Exchange Online and email services. Services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot were reported by users to be down.
The company said it did not have any indication that the outage was caused by malicious activi-ty and would treat the incident “with urgency and priority until full resolution.”