Microsoft extends email timeout by 48 hours amid major outage

What happened

Microsoft's outage began on Thursday and has rendered email, Teams, and its AI assistant Copilot useless for 430M users. Microsoft is a software and software development company based in Redmond, and its products and services include Microsoft Servers.

Microsoft’s outage began yesterday and has rendered these services, and more, incapacitated for its 430 million Microsoft users. Bad week for tech The outage arrived at the end of a turbulent week for the tech industry after Nvidia’s former CEO Jensen Huang resigned from the company following a series of exposed extramarital affairs.

Protos reports that it found a core process on affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, causing capacity loss. The ongoing Microsoft outage impacting Outlook, Teams, and its AI assistant Copilot has led to the $3.88 trillion tech giant extending an email “timeout” by 48 hours.

Nvidia’s stock has fallen 15% in the last 5 days and appears to have had a negative impact on the wider financial markets, including Bitcoin, which fell to $68,000 over the last few hours. Outages have also plagued Japanese credit unions and UK and Australian banks over the last few weeks. These were also not attributed to any malicious activity, such as the cyberattacks targeting European supermarket fridges.