A global Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot, affecting health care, airlines, visa processing and businesses in 74 countries and territories. Microsoft attributed the disruption to elevated load on its infrastructure and said it was not aware of any malicious activity.
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unable to refer patient details in the normal way which is creating a massive backlog and has the potential for chaos
I think one of the biggest things is Copilot not working, and you can sort of see the dependency now on Copilot
I think we need to be a little bit more careful
Since this software is used by a vast number of people, we will closely monitor the situation and take every possible measure to address it
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The disruption went global within an hour, knocking out Microsoft products in 74 countries and territories, Downdetector reported.
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Earlier reports gave 74 countries and territories 13 Nov, 17:06 The Edition