“You have to get used to living with failures”: a warning from a cybersecurity expert after the outage of Microsoft and Outlook
Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams and Copilot are inaccessible around the world
Quick Look
- The giant Microsoft is suffering a major global outage affecting Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams and Copilot.
- The company is struggling to identify the origin of the malfunction, paralyzing the activities of millions of users and businesses around the world.
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Why It Matters
Microsoft is experiencing a technical outage affecting its essential cloud services and software.
The superstitious will see this as a sign. This Friday, November 13, the tech giant Microsoft announced that it was encountering major difficulties with its servers.
All around the world, the consequences did not take long to be felt. Outlook messaging as well as the Microsoft 365 series of software (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) broke down, as did Teams chat or Copilot AI.
For the moment, the American giant admits having difficulty understanding the origin of the malfunction and therefore putting an end to it. As a result, hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of individuals are experiencing difficulties with essential activities, such as sending emails.
An episode which once again demonstrates our ultradependence on a few actors and technologies, warns Arnaud Kopp, expert in cybersecurity and resilience at Cylake.
Open Questions
- What is the exact technical cause of the failure?
- When is full restoration of services expected?
