Microsoft 365 went dark for hours. $MSFT barely flinched.
From about 1pm ET Thursday, Outlook, Teams, Copilot, SharePoint and OneDrive threw connection errors worldwide. Downdetector reports for Outlook peaked around 130,000. Microsoft says a number of servers unexpectedly went offline and overloaded the rest, with no sign of a cyberattack. Recovery was still partial hours later.
Market link: 365 is one of Microsoft's core business products, and companies everywhere run on it.
The move: $MSFT traded near $529 just before the outage, faded to close at $523.00, still +0.4% on the day. After hours it slipped to $521.09 (07:59 ICT).
Does a big outage ever really hurt a mega-cap stock, or is it just noise?
From about 1pm ET Thursday, Outlook, Teams, Copilot, SharePoint and OneDrive threw connection errors worldwide. Downdetector reports for Outlook peaked around 130,000. Microsoft says a number of servers unexpectedly went offline and overloaded the rest, with no sign of a cyberattack. Recovery was still partial hours later.
Market link: 365 is one of Microsoft's core business products, and companies everywhere run on it.
The move: $MSFT traded near $529 just before the outage, faded to close at $523.00, still +0.4% on the day. After hours it slipped to $521.09 (07:59 ICT).
Does a big outage ever really hurt a mega-cap stock, or is it just noise?
