<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=464AOA_1H4AJQpz00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=464AOA_1H4AJQpz00" width="1200" height="600" ><p>ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Microsoft’s Outlook, Teams, and Copilot stopped working around the world Thursday afternoon, disrupting work and communication for users.</p><p>Sara Jones was in the middle of a project when she lost access to her team and Microsoft tools.</p><p>“So what would have taken probably 30 minutes ended up taking a couple of hours, unfortunately,” Jones said.</p><h2>Work disrupted</h2><p>Jones said her team had to continue its project without Copilot.</p><p>“And Copilot was down. So we were unable to do that and we had to go back to old school using just our own brain power,” Jones said.</p><p>Stewart Anderson was at a conference when his email stopped working.</p><p>“It does disrupt because I’m trying to get some business done, or at least some communication done while I’m sitting in meetings,” Anderson said.</p><h2>An unexpected break</h2><p>A person identified in the script as Michael said the outage offered a chance to step away.</p><p>“I decided to just go and take a walk and reconnect with reality for a little bit,” Michael said.</p><p>“It says a lot about where we are in 2026 and how vulnerable our system is when something like that happens. You know, it might be a good wake-up call to see if we have some other way to do things just in case,” Michael said.</p></div></body>

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