Microsoft on Friday apologized for a global outage that disrupted public services and businesses around the world, as it reported a "broad recovery" for Outlook email and other services. The company ruled out any malicious "cyber or AI" activity as the cause of the outage, which affected several Microsoft products and disrupted health care services,
Microsoft said Friday that it was seeing "improvements" for Outlook email and other services amid an outage that was disrupting public services and businesses around the world. In an update, the company noted "broader improvements in North America, sustained improvements across much of Europe, and encouraging recovery signals in Asia-Pacific." The
England's National Health Service activated contingency plans Friday in response to the global Microsoft outage, reverting to "other IT systems or paper records" to maintain essential care and appointments. "With the global Microsoft issue inevitably having a disruptive impact for staff, local NHS services are enacting long-standing measures to manage
A global Microsoft outage has disrupted MaltaPost's customer support systems, forced a school to postpone a parents' day and left government emails delayed. The worldwide technical failure , which hit Microsoft Outlook, Teams and other online services, left businesses, schools and government departments struggling with communication problems. MaltaPost
Microsoft said that efforts to repair a major outage of Outlook were not going as expected and the firm was seeking alternative solutions as users around the world were left without its crucial services. The hours-long disruption, which Microsoft attributed to "elevated load" on its infrastructure, has hit email as well as products such as Teams and