You haven’t got mail: Global Microsoft outage disrupts services

BREAKING: A global Microsoft outage is disrupting Outlook, Teams and Copilot across 74 countries, hitting millions of users worldwide.

Microsoft just went dark in 74 countries at once.

Outlook, Teams, and Copilot all fell over this morning, which means millions of people worldwide can't send an email, can't join a meeting, and can't even ask the AI assistant why everything's broken. The whole modern office, offline together. Here's the scene playing out at desks everywhere.

And think about what that trio actually is. It's not one app hiccuping, it's Microsoft's core cloud plumbing, the stuff half the world's companies rented because running their own servers felt risky. Redmond will be scrambling, and somewhere Satya Nadella is getting the kind of morning briefing nobody wants.

We've spent a decade putting every workplace tool in one company's basket. Today, 74 countries found out what happens when the basket drops. The real cost isn't the outage, it's the realisation that there was never a plan B.

This is Liu Yang, reporting for HIT.