• Hours-long outage: A massive Microsoft outage has left millions around the world without access to Outlook email, Teams meeting tools and other staples of modern office life.
• Global disruption: In the United States, fed-up workers at some companies went home early on Thursday. In Australia, businesses couldn’t print invoices and some schools couldn’t hold online classes on Friday.
• No quick fix: As Europe woke on Friday morning, the outage was still widespread, affecting untold millions of people. Microsoft initially said it was “seeing positive results” with efforts to resolve the issue. But hours later it said it had not yet observed a “sustained recovery.”
