Stuff's live blog tracks a global Microsoft outage that knocked out Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, OneDrive and Copilot, drawing hundreds of thousands of reports worldwide and hitting New Zealand users, councils, Air New Zealand and Immigration New Zealand, which paused all visa processing. Microsoft has been restarting affected servers and capping traffic to bring them back, with no fix time estimate more than seven hours in, while the Law Society's Kristine King advises disrupted property-settlement practitioners on workarounds like Gmail and WhatsApp.