Microsoft Reroutes Global Traffic to Resolve Outage Affecting 365 Services and AI Connectors

Microsoft is rerouting network load across its worldwide infrastructure to alleviate a technical failure. The disruption affected Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot. The outage also broke software connectors integrated into tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. User reports on Downdetector rose to more than 130,000.