India, Nov. 13 -- A widespread outage at Microsoft brought Outlook, Teams and several other Microsoft 365 applications to a standstill for thousands of users globally on Thursday.

Users faced disruption accessing emails, work files and productivity tools for over 10 hours during the outage.

The disruption also spilled over to third-party platforms, with OpenAI and Anthropic reporting issues with their Microsoft 365 connectors.

As per outage reports on Downdetector, outages in India peaked at 2,162 around 11:44 PM on Thursday (November 12. Reports climbed again to 2,254 around 8:59 AM.

Globally, Downdetector recorded more than 38,000 reports of Microsoft 365 problems and around 4,500 reports related to Microsoft Teams at around 2:07 PM...