A BBC news article reports on a global Microsoft outage that has disrupted Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot, with Downdetector logging nearly 140,000 reports of Outlook problems across 74 countries. Microsoft blames "elevated load" on its servers rather than a cyber-attack, but says fixes are so far largely unsuccessful, while governments, UK GP practices, and firms including OpenAI and Anthropic report disruption.