Microsoft reported a widespread international disruption on Thursday that impacted key cloud services, including Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and Copilot. The technical issues left nearly 130,000 users worldwide unable to access essential workplace applications for more than five hours.
The outage began earlier in the day, prompting numerous reports from users experiencing connectivity and access problems globally. As the disruption persisted for hours, Microsoft initiated recovery procedures to restore affected servers. A company spokesperson confirmed that there was no indication of a cyberattack behind the incident, and recovery efforts were underway as services slowly began to return.
