Microsoft 365 hit by multi-region connectivity issues amid elevated infrastructure load

Microsoft 365 users across multiple regions experienced connectivity errors Thursday as the tech giant worked to resolve a widespread hours-long outage caused by elevated system loads.As of early Friday, the disruption remained unresolved in the United States and had extended into the workday across the Asia-Pacific region, as Microsoft continued working to restore service.The "elevated load" wasn't driven by an increase in traffic, according to an alert from the Microsoft Admin Center. Instead,