A major technical outage has disrupted Microsoft's cloud-based services worldwide. Services including Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Copilot became unavailable from 11:32pm Bangladesh time on Thursday. According to Downdetector, a website that monitors online service disruptions, reports of problems were logged from 74 countries and regions within about an hour.

Services Down for Over 18 Hours

Despite being one of the world's leading technology companies, Microsoft has not yet resolved the issue after more than 18 hours. Users have primarily been unable to access the email platform Outlook, according to Downdetector. The problems began around midnight Bangladesh time, initial data suggests.

Microsoft's Statement

In a statement, Microsoft said it is working to assess server conditions and find ways to increase capacity. The company is also reviewing whether security patches created after infrastructure reboots are performing as expected. However, the specific cause of the outage has not yet been disclosed.

Impact and Next Steps

Businesses, educational institutions and individual users in Bangladesh and other countries are facing significant disruption, particularly remote workers who rely heavily on email and Teams. Microsoft authorities say they are continuing to work on a fix, but no timeline has been provided for when services will be fully restored.