A global Microsoft 365 outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 Copilot, affecting governments, businesses, schools and financial-market operations. BBC Technology reported that routine automated checks took some servers offline and overloaded others, while Microsoft described the incident as a technical problem rather than a cyberattack and apologized for the disruption. Microsoft said mitigation efforts included traffic rebalancing, expanding virtual-machine capacity and restarting servers, with services gradually restored over nearly a day.