Users turned to social media to report the outage, which also affected third-party services like search engine DuckDuckGo that rely on Microsoft infrastructure.

Users in India have also reported problems accessing these sites.

According to outage tracking website DownDetector, about 57 percent of people reported problems accessing the Bing website, 34 percent reported problems with search, and 9 percent reported problems with login.

In India, users in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai are facing major issues with Microsoft services.

One user posted, "It's not just you: Microsoft services are down in some regions. #Bing is down on me, #CoPilot/CoPilot is down on Windows. DuckDuckGo not working because I use Bing Similarly, Internet searches for ChatGPT are also down.

Another user wrote, "Microsoft CoPilot and Binge down: Users face connection errors."

Another user said, "Is anyone else having problems with Bing? I keep getting this today."

Microsoft has not officially commented on the situation, however, it appears that most services have been restored and are now available to users around the world.