Microsoft said it had resolved a Teams outage in North America but later warned that Microsoft 365 connectivity could also be affected in other regions. (AFP pic)BENGALURU: Microsoft 365, Outlook and Teams were down for thousands of US users on Thursday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com, with the disruption also hitting connectors used by OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI services.

There were more than 97,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Outlook at 2:07 p.m. ET (3.07 am Malaysian time), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. The actual number of affected users may vary.

Downdetector also recorded more than 38,000 user reports of problems with Microsoft 365 and about 4,500 reports of users having trouble accessing Teams.