Microsoft ‘down’ after users report Outlook and Copilot issues Microsoft users reported widespread outages across Outlook and Copilot on Friday morning, with DownDetector tracking a spike in issues starting shortly after 7am. The disruptions affected the company's email platform and its AI chatbot, impacting productivity for millions of users. Microsoft https://metro.co.uk/tag/microsoft/ users are reporting issues across the company’s various services. Users have said they are having issues with Microsoft Outlook, the company’s email platform, as well as its AI chatbot, Copilot. The website DownDetector, used to track tech outages, showed reports of issues with Outlook began shortly after 7am on Friday and climbed over the course of the morning.