Microsoft recently became the second-most valuable company globally, overtaking Nvidia amid market turmoil. Nvidia's value dropped significantly due to a negative outlook on AI and leadership scandals. Concurrently, Microsoft experienced a major global outage affecting services like Outlook and Teams for over 18 hours. This disruption impacted various government and airline services across multiple countries. While recovery is underway, some users may continue to experience intermittent issues." name="description">window.pageLoadStarted = (new Date()).getTime().