What happened overnight with the Microsoft global outage?

Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by “connectivity problems”. A monitoring website reports the outage is affecting users in 74 countries. So what’s going on? The BBC’s Claire Keenan explains everything we know so far.

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