Many Microsoft services, including Bing and Copilot, ChatGPT web search, and DuckDuckGo, do not work in Europe. Leaky Computer informed. Bing.com and Copilot return blank pages and 429 errors, while DuckDuckGo simply says, “An error occurred displaying search results. Please try again.“
On it @MSFT365Status X page, Microsoft stated that “We are investigating an issue where users are unable to access the Microsoft Copilot service. We are working to isolate the cause of the problem. More information can be found in the admin center under CP795190.” Also OpenAI confirmed the issue and said he was investigating.
Both ChatGPT web search (available for Plus or enterprise users) and DuckDuckGo rely on the Bing API, so these sites don’t work either. The outage appears to have started around 3:00 a.m. ET today (May 23).
In January, Microsoft suffered another crash The teams went down throughout North and South America. The company also suffered a major breach in the same month with a US government watchdog is calling Microsoft’s security culture is “inadequate” and needs an overhaul.
