Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption affecting millions and says it’s ‘not related to cyber or AI’ – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. Tell us: have you been affected by the Microsoft outage? Microsoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and Teams What happened and when will it be fixed?

There are plenty of essential services that remain unaffected by the outage, which is largely impacting email systems. The Australian Medical Association said it has so far not received any reports that hospitals or clinics are impacted. Impact is largely restricted to the sending and receiving of email. Western Australia, along with jurisdictions around the world, is…