Microsoft outage impacting millions

Partial sigh of relief globally as emails start flowing back into Outlook inboxes this morning. A global outage started yesterday morning. It has lasted almost 24 hours. Sean Chetniss, live at Microsoft headquarters with more on the impact people are still noticing. Sean, online, you know, I'm going to be honest with you, it's been kind of a joke, the unexpected vacation. But it is really how so many of us do our jobs. Well and Maria just think about it if you are looking at your email constantly throughout the day and then all of a sudden it just stops and then it comes back again that is that partial sigh of relief a bit of a break back to normal but of course are you getting all of the emails that you might have missed and how crucial are those well what we know at this point is that Microsoft tells us that there was an overload to the system what was happening is some of their servers went offline and so of course they couldn't handle all of the remaining Elevated load that was coming into the system while those servers were down so we are starting to see the situation improve the impact of the outage affected major services provided by the company through Microsoft 365. So that includes Outlook for email teams for video chat and the AI assistant co-pilot. While we don't know yet the full reach of the outage and how many users were unable to access those services, Microsoft has estimated in the past more than 450 million paid subscriptions used Microsoft 365. So recovery efforts did not appear to provide much help on Thursday. This morning, though, the company has said it's seeing progress with some early stabilization of the network and its capacity improving. Moving. Even after Microsoft provided that update, multiple reports suggested Problems were still there. So far, there are no signs of malicious activity creating this outage. Part of the frustration throughout the day on Thursday was both the length of the outage and the company's inability to estimate how soon it could get the network back to normal. And we don't know the reach of this outage. Thank you very much. In all, but we do have a sense of its impact going all the way to Europe and Asia. Now, Microsoft stock didn't appear to be too much of a factor here or get impacted by that yesterday during trading during pre-market activity, though we are seeing it down. We will see the full impact by investors when the market opens in an hour. Live in Redmond, Sean Chetniss, Fox 13 News.