Microsoft's outage is in its 2nd day, and it's causing chaos for businesses. Here's what we know.

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A global Microsoft 365 outage is disrupting email, Teams, OpenAI's connector, and Claude for Outlook as recovery efforts continue. Here's the latest.

Microsoft's global Outlook outage has dragged into a second day, leaving users unable to access email and disrupting Teams, Copilot, and other Microsoft 365 tools. It has also affected AI tools. Anthropic and OpenAI said in status update pages that their connectors to Microsoft 365 tools had been disrupted. Anthropic said the issues were fixed by 6:58 a.m. ET on Friday. Here's what we know so far about the Microsoft outage that's causing chaos for businesses. Microsoft said in a 7:58 a.m. ET update that it was seeing "sustained improvements" in Europe. Asia Pacific was seeing "encouraging recovery signals," it added, and North America was also improving.

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