A massive outage on Thursday affected several Microsoft services such as Bing Search, Copilot, ChatGPT and more globally
Users turned to social media to report the outage, which also impacted third-party services such as search engine DuckDuckGo which relies on Microsoft’s infrastructure.
As per outage tracking website Downdetector, about 57 percent of people reported problems accessing the Bing website, 34 percent reported issues with the search, and 9 percent with login.

Microsoft has not officially commented on the situation, however, it appears that the majority of the services have been restored and are now available to users worldwide.
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