Microsoft's shares took a hit, down around 2.8% in premarket trading, after a major global outage disrupted its core services.
Key tools like Outlook, Teams, and Copilot went offline for users across the world on Thursday, leaving businesses and government agencies scrambling and sparking fresh worries among investors about how reliable Microsoft's services really are.
Microsoft says infrastructure likely caused outage
The trouble centered on Microsoft 365 services linked to Exchange Online, with connectivity issues popping up in more than 70 countries and territories.
Airlines in India, financial firms in Taiwan, and even government operations in places like Australia, Japan, and the US were impacted.
Microsoft says overloaded servers and infrastructure hiccups were likely contributors, not hackers, and its teams are still working to get everything back on track.
The whole episode is a reminder of just how much everyone relies on Microsoft's tech these days.