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Full coverage· Tech· Updated

Microsoft Outage Disrupts Globes Website and App Updates

A global Microsoft outage that began Thursday evening continued Friday, disrupting Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 services. The Israeli financial news outlet Globes stated its website and app were not updating due to the widespread technical failure.

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What happened

  1. 01Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 experienced a global outage starting Thursday evening.
  2. 02The Israeli financial news outlet Globes reported its website and app were not updating due to the Microsoft outage.
  3. 03Over 130,000 user reports were recorded on Downdetector at the peak of the disruption.
  4. 04Microsoft stated that repair efforts were not progressing as expected due to infrastructure overloads.
  5. 05The outage also reportedly affected users of AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Microsoft acknowledged that repair efforts were not progressing as expected, citing infrastructure overloads as the cause.

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