Watch: How a server outage took down Microsoft Teams and Outlook
A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.
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A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.
Microsoft has said the problem was caused by a higher-than-usual stress on its servers but that systems were now showing "early signs of stabilisation" as work continued on a fix.
The BBC's technology reporter Shiona McCallum explains what we know.
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