Microsoft outage causes widespread disruption across the world
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Outlook, Teams and Copilot remain disrupted in 74 countries as Microsoft reports ‘marginal success’ in fixing outage.
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Affected products included instant messaging service Teams, AI service Copilot, Outlook emails and some aspects of its Cloud services, among others.
The issue began late on Thursday afternoon and has seen hundreds of thousands of users unable to access many of Microsoft’s most popular services.
US politicians have called Jensen Huang, an architect of the artificial intelligence boom, to face their questions in December after the Nvidia ex-CEO quit over extramarital affairs.
Follow the Daily Mail's live coverage as Microsoft users experience major disruption and the tech giant works to resolve outages impacting some of its most popular services.
Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems".
Microsoft executive vice-president Charles Lamanna said the outages did not appear to be the result of a cyber attack.
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Affected products include Teams, AI service Copilot, Outlook emails and some aspects of Microsoft Cloud services
It added that it had begun work to redistribute traffic across its worldwide infrastructure
The outage started in the Americas last night and has now spread around the globe
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Government services and schools impacted by Outlook and Teams issue as company says fix not ‘taking as expected’ Microsoft outage – live updates Microsoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and Teams Australian schools, courts and government services have been hurled back in time to how business used to be done after a global Microsoft outage caused emails and online meetings to go dark. Australians began reporting issues with Microsoft 365 – which includes Outlook and Teams – jus...
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A widespread outage has hit Microsoft platforms, with a fix "not taking as expected".
CEO behind the meteoric rise of Nvidia stepped down after it was revealed he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO of Nvidia , the company at the center of the AI boom, after leading it for more than 30 years. Huang, an electrical engineer by education, stewarded the company from a $1bn firm when it went public in 1999 to a company valued at more than $4tn in 2026. But in a matter of days, after it was revealed he had an extramarital affair with a woma...
Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot suffered a worldwide outage on Thursday, disrupting access for tens of thousands of users across 74 countries and territories. The company blamed elevated infrastructure loads and said it was working to restore services, but recovery remained limited hours later.
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The company initially said the issue may affect Microsoft 365 service connectivity for users across the world.
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Huang’s resignation has sent shockwaves through the AI industry, after revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spy Full report: Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO Analysis: Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now he’s gone, will Nvidia’s ramparts be breached? Jensen Huang is expected to testify before the US Congress in the next fortnight, after the Nvidia CEO stepped down from the multi-trillion dollar company on Thursday, plunging the chipmaker into cr...
Microsoft says some servers are returning to service and streamlined recovery process under way to end a global outage Microsoft begins restoring services amid global outage affecting Outlook and Teams An expert has said the issue appears similar to the configuration issue which brought down Optus’s network in 2023 with the outage appearing to affect the network layer in Microsoft’s systems. Mark Gregory, associate professor in the School of Engineering at RMIT University, said when some of t...
Chief financial officer Colette Kress to take over on interim basis but other names are in mix to be permanent successor The hunt is on for a new Nvidia CEO. It comes after a whirlwind week, which saw the company head and co-founder, Jensen Huang, resign amid multiple allegations of extramarital affairs , including one that involved an alleged Chinese spy and two with company employees. Nvidia immediately named Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, as the interim CEO. It’s pos...
Similar spikes in outages were reported with Microsoft 365 and Copilot
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Microsoft says servers unexpectedly went offline, disrupting Outlook email, Teams, Copilot and other services.
An alert on Microsoft’s site said it was ‘aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact’ and blamed a server issue Microsoft says it is “aggressively pursuing all pathways” after users reported issues accessing its 365 suite of programs, including Outlook and Teams. Outage website Down Detector showed a spike in Microsoft 365 problems, with nearly 130,000 reports of issues affecting access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams as well as enterprise services such as SharePoint an...
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Speaking at Web Summit Lisbon, one economist calls founder Jensen Huang’s exit “a critical mistake” and a “significant loss” for the industry, while another says large corporations are built to outlast the people who run them.
Huang is now reported to have had affairs with two Nvidia co-workers, as well as an alleged Chinese spy.
Microsoft services outage: thousands of users report issues with Outlook, Teams and Copilot. The company is working to restore services.
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CEO was viewed as ‘irreplaceable’, but recklessness of affair with a woman regarded by US officials as a Chinese spy made him a political liability Half the tech world made up its mind before the facts could be assessed properly. Jensen Huang was “irreplaceable”, said the chorus at the start of this week. Nvidia would melt without the co-founder’s brilliance, apparently. The chipmaker’s board had to find a way to save its genius for the sake of corporate America and the entire AI universe. It...
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Jensen Huang, 63, has resigned as chief executive of AI giant Nvidia, according to the company.
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Move follows admission of affair with woman alleged to be Chinese spy and reported relationship with employee Business live – latest updates Jensen Huang has resigned as chief executive of Nvidia after reports of extramarital affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a company employee. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Nvidia’s chief financial officer, Colette Kress, until a full-time successor is named. Continue reading...
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Nvidia shares have plummeted in recent days since Huang admitted to the first affair, which was with an alleged Chinese spy.
Nvidia shares fall in pre-market trading after report of Huang’s second affair Nvidia board reportedly deciding whether to oust CEO Jensen Huang Too big – and too well-connected – to sack? Huang does not enjoy the supercharged voting rights that are par for the course elsewhere – his shareholding is a plain vanilla 3.6%. On the other hand, Nvidia’s board does not appear to have spent much time worrying about succession planning and “key person risk” or other standard concerns of corporate gov...
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