Microsoft outage live: Teams, Outlook and Copilot down today as new update issued

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Microsoft has been suffering the mega outage for more than 12 hours with staff struggling to find a fix, as the UK wakes up to issues accessing Teams, Outlook and Copilot

Microsoft is still grappling with a mega outage affecting users worldwide, impacting Teams, Outlook and Copilot.

The tech giant said this morning that it 'appreciated the patience' of those impacted, but major issues are still persisting as Microsoft staff fail to resolve the issues.

Microsoft has been suffering the major outage for around 12 hours, affecting several Microsoft Suite platforms, including Outlook emails, messaging platform Teams, and the AI assistant Copilot.

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In an update this morning, the tech giant said that although it had managed to get servers operating multiple times overnight UK time, those servers had crashed.

Microsoft said it had tried several solutions to mitigate the problems, including isolating parts of its infrastructure and shifting traffic to alternate routes.

“We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as expected,” the company said.

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