Microsoft says services fully restored after outage roiled world – CNBC TV18

Microsoft Corp. said access has been fully restored to its flagship software, ending an outage that paralyzed government offices, traders and businesses around the world.

“All products are operational,” according to a service health status update on its website. A “backlog of email messages has been processed, thus this issue is remediated,” it said of its Microsoft 365 services.

That included Outlook, Teams and the Copilot artificial intelligence tool, whose users experienced missed meeting invitations and unresponsive web pages on Friday. Previous disruptions have rarely lasted more than several hours.

The outage cascaded around the world, with people in more than 70 countries reporting problems, according to Downdetector, which recorded hundreds of thousands of complaints.

Office and government workers from Tokyo to London and New York struggled to adapt, often reaching for analog 20th-century tools like the telephone and, yes, paper. Corporate workers around the US celebrated the Outlook outage as an “adult snow day.” Google Workspace workers, meanwhile, looked on with envy as their Outlook counterparts kicked up their feet.

But their bosses were already counting the costs. Some companies, including Swiss luxury group Richemont and US-based truck and bus manufacturer Workhorse Group Inc., were forced to delay reporting…

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