⚑️🚨 UPDATE - Microsoft's outage now reaches far beyond Outlook. Teams, SharePoint, Copilot and even its Defender XDR security platform are hit. Consumers can't reach their OneDrive storage or Office on the web either, TechCrunch reports. Microsoft first blamed elevated load. Now it says a large number of its servers became unexpectedly unavailable, dumping their load onto the rest. It hasn't said why. It is restarting the servers with a fix in place, investigating why they show high processor use, and has paused all deployments. View quoted note β†’

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⚑️🀑 UPDATE - More than 14 hours later, Microsoft is still struggling to fix its massive Outlook outage, the disruption is affecting businesses worldwide, including Europe. Euronext, the European stock exchange operator, has advised listed companies to use phone calls instead of email for important corporate communications. Microsoft reports early signs of recovery after implementing traffic optimization measures to improve server stability and capacity. More than 430 million people use Microsoft 365 apps. View quoted note β†’
Are the data centers they built overloaded their systems because it wasn't wisely thought out 🀣
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