Microsoft announces global outage resolution and full restoration of its services
On Saturday morning, Microsoft announced that its services, including Outlook, Copilot, and Teams, have returned to normal after a widespread global outage that lasted more than 24 hours.
The outage began on Thursday, affecting users in over 70 countries who faced access issues. The operations of companies, government organizations, hospitals, courts, and airlines around the world were impacted.
Microsoft apologized to users, stating that the cause of the outage was a technical issue during a network capacity upgrade, and it was not related to a cyberattack or the activities of artificial intelligence agents.
The company emphasized that access for the last group of affected users and regions was fully restored by Saturday morning.