Most Microsoft 365 services are back to work after a widespread outage that shut down the company's cloud services, including Outlook, and affected companies, government institutions and tens of millions of users in more than 70 countries.
Microsoft apologized for the widespread outage that affected Outlook, Teams and CoPilot services, which lasted almost 24 hours and prevented millions of users from accessing their accounts, and emphasized that the outage was due to a technical problem with network updates, and not an electronic attack.
The company said in a post on X that it had observed "encouraging indicators of recovery" for the servers that stopped responding on Thursday. In a separate post, she expressed a "profound apology" for the disruption caused by the malfunction, and undertook to publish a report later that would clarify the details of the accident and its causes.