The Microsoft outage is disrupting email. These business leaders barely use it anyway.

A general Microsoft outage on Thursday remaining thousands of users struggling to admission their emails, disrupting workplaces and authorities operations about the world.

The outage affected Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and another Microsoft 365 services. In updates on X, Microsoft stated overloaded infrastructure and unresponsive servers were contributing to the disruptions, which continued into Friday.

"We regret that today's outages caused disruptions for our customers, and we are operating to location the issue," Microsoft administrator Charles Lamanna stated in a Thursday article on X. "We volition continue to portion additional data as shortly as we have it, and for now I can verify that there is no sign this is the outcome of malicious or cyber activity."

The business did not immediately react to a petition for comment from Business Insider.

Some workforce about the earth are celebrating the outage, saying they can't perchance activity without their Teams and emails, and are jokingly suggesting their bosses provision them Friday off. Others, in furious social media posts, are calling on Microsoft to determine the matter shortly so they can get rear to work.

But for several of the world's most prosperous endeavor leaders, going without email is already a way of life.

Several CEOs and entrepreneurs have earlier told Business Insider that they rarely use email, preferring phone calls, content messages, or equal handwritten letters.

Kevin O'Leary

"Shark Tank" capitalist Kevin O'Leary stated in a December discussion alongside Business Insider that he had stated up on email following being inundated alongside thousands of messages daily.

"I don't do emails anymore since I get anyplace from 2,000 to 4,000 a day," he said.

O'Leary stated he had tried distinct filtering systems but couldn't escape the changeless stream of messages. People who need to attain him now use messaging apps instead, he added.

Brian Chesky

The Airbnb CEO is another email skeptic.

"I don't cognize if I compose an email a week," Chesky told Time in a September interview.

He stated he responds to emails regular but rarely initiates them, preferring texts, calls, and in-person conversations.

"I fair discover it lesser to nearly all another form of communication," Chesky said, explaining that texts awareness additional individual and faster.

John Paul DeJoria

DeJoria, the billionaire cofounder of haircare brands John Paul Mitchell Systems and Patrón Tequila, takes things further.

"I don't equal own a computer," DeJoria told Business Insider in a June interview.

The 82-year-old entrepreneur stated he doesn't have an email address. Instead, he uses his assistant's device whenever necessary and prefers calls or handwritten letters.

Wolfgang Puck

The celebrity chef additionally favors phone calls complete email whenever managing his eatery empire.

"I don't bask emails extremely much. I akin talking to group directly. I think you comprehend group improved that way," Puck told Business Insider before this year.

Melanie Perkins

The Canva CEO isn't against using email, but limits it to defend her individual time.

"I don't have email or Slack on my phone," Perkins stated on a podcast final year. "When I close my laptop, I really tune out."

She stated she remains reachable through emergency calls or pages, but alternatively tries to distinct activity from downtime.