Some Microsoft services hit by global outage

Users turned to social media on Thursday to complain about the outage, which is also impacting third parties, including the search engine DuckDuckGo, which relies on Microsoft’s infrastructure.

TechCentral was unable to access Bing on Thursday morning, with the website simply warning: “Hmmm … can’t reach this page.”The Bing status page, which is meant to display the current status of the Bing search engine and its related services, returned the same error.copilot.microsoft.com website was also inaccessible shortly after 10am SAST. ChatGPT, on which Copilot is based, was accessible.

Microsoft’s Azure status page, which shows issues impacting its Azure data centre infrastructure, was available but said there were “currently no active events”.Downdetector.com, a website that monitors website outages, reported a spike in complaints about Bing starting at around 7.30am SAST on Thursday. Downdetector also showed a spike in user complaints about DuckDuckGo, which is reliant on Microsoft services.Services appeared to be returning at around 10.

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