Microsoft begins restoring services amid global outage affecting Outlook and Teams

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Streamlined recovery process under way, company says, after nearly 130,000 users worldwide reported access issuesMicrosoft outage – live updatesMicrosoft says a portion of servers are returning to service, and a streamlined recovery process.
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- —Streamlined recovery process under way, company says, after nearly 130,000 users worldwide reported access issuesMicrosoft outage – live updatesMicrosoft says a portion of servers are returning to service, and a streamlined recovery process is under way to end a global outage that has resulted in nearly 130,000 users worldwide reporting issues accessing its 365 suite of software, including Outlook and Teams.Outage website Down Detector showed a spike in Microsoft 365 problems, with nearly 130,000 reports of issues affecting access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams as well as enterprise services such as SharePoint and OneDrive.
- —AI assistant Copilot was also affected.
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