If Outlook, Teams or Copilot aren’t working for you today, you’re not alone. Microsoft is having trouble with its services, and apparently the cloud itself has taken a bit of holiday. The problems began last night, when users started reporting that Outlook, Teams and Copilot were down. Microsoft confirmed infrastructure issues affecting the availability of Microsoft 365 services. Email isn’t working, meetings are being cancelled, and artificial intelligence has apparently taken the day off.
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Everything is in the cloud, everything is connected, everything is smart. Until someone somewhere pulls the wrong cable and half the business world grinds to a halt. The greatest irony is that Microsoft sells us artificial intelligence that’s meant to save us time.
Today, though, Microsoft itself saved us the most time. No email, no pointless meetings and no Copilot to help us write a reply to an email. Maybe this isn’t a fault at all. Maybe it’s Microsoft’s new productivity feature.
Microsoft will fix the problems sooner or later. Our dependence on its services, however, will remain. Until the next outage, when we’ll once again be surprised that the cloud isn’t magic.