Microsoft users continued to experience disruption today as the tech giant worked to resolve outages affecting some of its most popular services.
Affected products include the instant messaging service Teams, the AI service Copilot, Outlook email and some aspects of its Cloud services, among others.
The issues began on Thursday afternoon as monitoring website Downdetector recorded an enormous surge of outage reports.
By 6pm UK time, Microsoft users had logged nearly 140,000 reports of issues with Outlook, more than 2,000 times normal levels.
As of 8am this morning, there were more than 7,600 outage reports of service disruption, as users reported being unable to receive emails,
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