Claims extracted
16
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
0%
0 of 16 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
64/100
Evening Standard's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
unclustered
not grouped into a story yet
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Attempts to use Teams and Outlook and Hotmail emails services were unsuccessful on Friday morning, as the company battled to fix a global outage.
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company → use → outage
“We appreciate your organisation’s patience and understanding while we work with urgency to resolve this incident,” the company said.
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company → appreciate → incident
Affected products also included AI service Copilot and some aspects of its Cloud services.
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products → affect → services
In an update on Friday, the tech giant said that although it had managed to get servers operating multiple times overnight UK time, those servers had crashed.
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servers → say → Friday
Microsoft said it had tried several solutions to mitigate the problems, including isolating parts of its infrastructure and shifting traffic to alternate routes.
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it → say → routes
“We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as expected,” the company said.
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company → monitor → serviceability
Live updates
Attempted fixes 'not taking as expected'
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fixes → take → ?
In an update overnight, Microsoft said it had tried several solutions to mitigate the problems, including isolating parts of its infrastructure and shifting traffic to alternate routes.
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it → say → routes
“We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as expected,” the company said.
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company → monitor → serviceability
The tech firm provided regular updates on official Microsoft 365 accounts.
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firm → provide → accounts
It had earlier directed people to a page on its website for updates, but users complained the page did not load.
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page → direct → updates
Microsoft outages hit London as tech giant works to restore services
Microsoft users in London and beyond are experiencing disruption on Friday as the tech giant battles to resolve outages impacting some of its most popular services.
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giant → hit → services
Monitoring website Downdetector first showed a spike in users reporting problems with Microsoft Teams in the UK at around 6.15pm on Thursday.
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website → monitor → Thursday
Issues were still being reported at 6am this morning.
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Issues → report → am
“We appreciate your organisation’s patience and understanding while we work with urgency to resolve this incident,” the company said.
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company → appreciate → incident
Affected products included instant messaging service Teams, AI service Copilot, Outlook emails and some aspects of its Cloud services, among others.
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products → affect → others