Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

A major outage disrupted Microsoft services including Bing and Copilot, causing Bing’s homepage to return 429 errors while direct search remained functional; downstream services relying on Bing’s API—such as DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s internet search—were also affected. Microsoft confirmed the incident (CP795190), initiated mitigation by transitioning requests to alternate components, and reported ongoing recovery, though some Android, iOS, and Windows apps continued experiencing issues.