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Microsoft servers experience a failure this Thursday that affects a portion of its online programs, including the popular Outlook email service.
The company indicated that the failure occurs in various regions of the world and that it is working to find a solution: "We have confirmed that the problem could affect connectivity to the Microsoft 365 service for users in any region," the company indicated in X.
"Several servers have been unexpectedly taken out of service, which has overloaded the rest of the infrastructure. We are working to restore them safely," he added.
The Microsoft 365 platform supports several of the firm's services, including email and Office online packaging.
There were also reports that the instant messaging service Teams was out of service. according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
The flaw is also having an impact on the services of OpenAI and Anthropic's artificial intelligence platforms.
According to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from various sources, the main problem is concentrated in the Outlook service, with more than 129,000 incidents from users reporting problems with email.
It is followed by MIcrosoft 365, with about 46,000 reports.
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Microsoft had announced earlier in the day that it had fixed an outage in Teams that affected users in North America and that the problem had been completely resolved, the Reuters agency reported.
The company later indicated that the problem could also affect the connectivity of the Microsoft 365 service for users in other regions.
The OpenAI firm, which runs ChatGPT, said it was investigating an issue with Microsoft connectors where new connections could be interrupted causing the tools to not work as expected.
In turn, Anthropic said it identified an issue with a higher-tier vendor affecting its Microsoft 365 connector.
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