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Microsoft’s Self-Inflicted Outage Follows Plan to Cut Quarter of Workforce

Microsoft's Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams, Exchange Online and Copilot, suffered a global outage that Downdetector logged as more than 140,000 user reports across 74 countries. Microsoft says it was not a cyberattack and points to failing automated server health checks and high processor usage. The disruption came less than three weeks after the company offered voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 eligible employees, roughly 27 percent of its 223,000-strong workforce, in divisions including Copilot, HR and AI experiences.