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Microsoft says services fully restored after global outage
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The outage affected governments, courts, healthcare services, businesses, airlines and banks in many places. Governments including those of Japan, Singapore…

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The Register
Microsoft services restored to all customers, company says it's 'deeply sorry'The company restored service to email and other Microsoft 365 and related services to all customers by Friday night
PC Gamer
Microsoft says there is 'no evidence of malicious activity' being the cause of the global service outage affecting governments and organisations around the worldA bunch of governments, state institutions, and companies are affected globally.
TechCrunch
Microsoft’s latest email outage turned into a full-blown global cloud crisisMicrosoft's daylong outage began with Outlook and Teams and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually…
TIME
Microsoft Struggles to Repair Worldwide Outage. Here's What You Need to KnowThe outage impacting various Microsoft 365 services has caused disruption to governments and businesses globally. Here's what you need to know.
Ars Technica
Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon's or CrowdStrike's, expert saysGovernments, hospitals, courts scrambled by global Microsoft outage.
Semafor
Microsoft reports progress in restoring service after global outageThe outage is the kind of issue that reminds the world how much of our digital infrastructure is reliant on just a few companies.
PC Gamer
Microsoft ‘deeply’ apologizes for global service outage, says no AI or hackers are to blamePresumably none of the roughly 30,000 Microsoft employees laid off in the last four years could have prevented this.
CBS News
Microsoft says it "restored service" after major worldwide outageA Microsoft outage involving services like Outlook and Teams impacted many users, companies and government services.