00:00A massive Microsoft meltdown is causing chaos around the world, knocking out Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 services for
00:08potentially millions of people.
00:10More than 130,000 reports of Outlook problems flooded down Detector at the peak of Thursday's outage, with disruptions stretching
00:18from the United States to Australia and Japan.
00:21CNN reports some American workers were sent home early, Australian schools couldn't hold online classes, and businesses struggled to process
00:30invoices.
00:31Even government agencies were caught in the chaos.
00:34Microsoft says malfunctioning servers are behind the disruption, with some systems repeatedly crashing as the company attempts to restore service.
00:42The tech giant says there's no evidence of a cyber attack, but recovery efforts have delivered only partial results.
00:48Now the global disruption is raising serious questions about just how much of the modern workplace depends on a single
00:55technology company.
