
The failure affected, among others, Outlook, Teams, Microsoft365 and Copilot. The company assures that it was not a hacker attack.
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The outage affected popular Microsoft services in 74 countries, disrupting office work and online education.
The failure affects some of the most popular Microsoft services, including: Outlook, Teams, Microsoft365, Copilot. This means serious difficulties for office workers using them. The company assures that there was no hacker attack.
According to monitoring site Downdetector, reports of the outage "reached 74 countries and territories within about an hour." In the United States, workers at some companies returned home earlier Thursday. In Australia, companies were unable to print invoices and some schools were unable to conduct online classes on Friday.
As recovery efforts continue, we are seeing first signs of stabilization and improved throughput. To help secure delayed messages during this situation, we have extended the email timeout to 48 hours. 10 Polish time.
The Minister of Digital Affairs, Krzysztof Gawkowski, commented on the failure on the X website. He suggested that we should not rely solely on services provided by global giants.
The minister informed that his ministry is working on implementing open source solutions in public administration. A competition for pilot implementations of open source software in local government units will begin soon.
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