Microsoft on Friday ?said that ?services ?had ?fully recovered across ?Teams, Outlook, ?Copilot and ?other ?applications, ending ?a ?global ?outage ?that ?crippled online communications across businesses ?and governments for ?over 24 ?hours.
Microsoft said earlier that server issues were behind the incident and that a broader rollout of software fixes was stabilizing the system. It said it was not aware of any malicious activity and ruled out AI as the cause.
Outlook and Teams are two of the most widely used workplace applications with hundreds of millions of users. The outage prevented people from performing essential functions such as sending emails, managing calendars and hosting virtual meetings.
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