The ongoing Microsoft outage impacting Outlook, Teams, and its AI assistant Copilot has led to the $3.88 trillion tech giant extending an email “timeout” by 48 hours.
Microsoft’s outage began yesterday and has rendered these services, and more, incapacitated for its 430 million Microsoft users.
By extending the timeout, Microsoft hopes to allow any emails that have been delayed by the issue to catch up as systems slowly restore.
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Microsoft reportedly attributed the outage to an “elevated load” within its infrastructure and claims there’s no evidence of “malicious activity.”
The company’s latest update said, “We’re seeing continued recovery progress across affected regions, with broader improvements in North America, sustained improvements across much of Europe, and encouraging recovery signals in Asia Pacific.”
“Some users may still experience intermittent issues as recovery actions continue. We’re focused on recovery for the remaining affected environments while prioritizing email queue and backlog reduction.”
Bad week for tech
The outage arrived at the end of a turbulent week for the tech industry after Nvidia’s former CEO Jensen Huang resigned from the company following a series of exposed extramarital affairs.
Nvidia’s stock has fallen 15% in the last 5 days and appears to have had a negative impact on the wider financial markets, including Bitcoin, which fell to $68,000 over the last few hours.
Outages have also plagued Japanese credit unions and UK and Australian banks over the last few weeks.
These were also not attributed to any malicious activity, such as the cyberattacks targeting European supermarket fridges.
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