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Several Microsoft services are down right now, including Copilot and Bing.

The outage also affects ChatGPT, preventing the service from being able to search the web.

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DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing, is affected as well.

The outage began around 3 AM ET on May 23, 2024.

Users in Asia and Europe appear to be the ones primarily affected by the issue.

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“We’re investigating an issue where users may be unable to dive into the Microsoft Copilot service.

We’re working to isolate the cause of the issue.

We’re investigating an issue where users may be unable to get into the Microsoft Copilot service.

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We’re working to isolate the cause of the issue.

The number of issues with Bing seems to be going down, however.

The timing is less than ideal, since Microsoft had two major events this week.

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The tech giant unveiled itsSurface Pro 11andSurface Laptop 7on Monday then held its annualBuild conferenceover the following two days.

The events sprung Microsoft into the spotlight, so its services having outages isn’t a great look.

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