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Facepalm: Microsoft is struggling to restore services after a massive outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, and other applications for several hours globally on Thursday. The company says it has "no indication of a cyber-attack," and that it is still trying to get all affected services up and running.

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Users started reporting problems with several Microsoft 365 services on Thursday morning, with outage detection website Down Detector receiving nearly 150,000 reports about people being unable to access Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and other Microsoft services.

Microsoft confirmed the outage, saying it was looking into reports of "users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods." Some time later, the company reported that its server infrastructure was "experiencing elevated load, (which is)…