{"id":312962,"date":"2026-11-13T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=312962"},"modified":"2026-11-13T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T10:00:41","slug":"microsoft-services-experienced-outages-in-74-countries-within-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/312962\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft services experienced outages in 74 countries within an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Tens of thousands of users around the world have been affected by a major global outage of Microsoft services, including the Outlook email client, the Teams video conferencing platform and the Copilot AI chatbot, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/russian\/articles\/c60ev1pzvwnlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, all three services are experiencing &ldquo;connectivity issues.&rdquo; Based on its current assessment, Microsoft says a cyberattack is unlikely to be behind the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Data from outage monitoring service Downdetector shows that problems with Microsoft applications were reported in 74 countries within a single hour. The disruptions are still ongoing, more than eight hours after they were first detected.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft&rsquo;s website, its Microsoft 365 package is used by 430 million people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said it had released an update, but its rollout was taking longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p>The company also reported that its servers in several regions were experiencing &ldquo;increased traffic,&rdquo; meaning the volume of requests had exceeded their processing capacity.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, services such as Outlook may run significantly slower than usual. Emails, attachments and calendar entries may take a long time to load or fail to appear in users&rsquo; inboxes. Prompts submitted to Copilot may also take longer to process or fail to receive a response within the expected time.<\/p>\n<p>The outage has also affected some third-party services not owned by Microsoft. OpenAI and Anthropic reported disruptions to certain features of their products that rely on integration with Microsoft services.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&rsquo;s Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security, Tony Burke, said he had spoken with Microsoft representatives in the country. According to Burke, they &ldquo;do not believe they are dealing with a cyber incident.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts said that if no cyberattack was involved, the incident could only be described as &ldquo;incredible incompetence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of users around the world have been affected by a major global outage of Microsoft services, including the Outlook email client, the Teams video conferencing platform and the Copilot AI chatbot, the BBC reports. According to the company, all three services are experiencing &ldquo;connectivity issues.&rdquo; Based on its current assessment, Microsoft says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312963,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312962\/revisions\/312963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}