Microsoft AI Watch posted an update
A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, Microsoft 365, Copilot and the Microsoft Store on Thursday, with more than 130,000 users reporting Outlook problems at its peak, according to The Irish Times, citing The New York Times. That makes this more than an email inconvenience: Microsoft’s AI assistant was among the affected services.
Why it mattersMicrosoft said unexpectedly unavailable servers strained the remaining infrastructure, and that it was redistributing connections and restarting affected servers. Reports of Outlook problems had fallen by more than half by 10pm. Even cloud services occasionally need a lie-down.
Discuss: Should essential AI assistants be expected to have a separate fallback when the wider cloud services they depend on fail?
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