Microsoft outage disrupts search engines, AI tools

Extended beyond Microsoft's own products

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Microsoft outage disrupts search engines, AI tools
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Microsoft outage disrupts search engines, AI tools

Microsoft faced a service outage on Thursday, leaving many users in Asia and Europe frustrated as Bing Search became inaccessible.

The outage, which began around 3 am Eastern Time, impacted Bing, the company's search engine, as well as Microsoft's AI-powered tools like Copilot and the DALL-E image creation service. Users at...

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