Microsoft Restores Outlook and Teams After 24-Hour Global Outage
Digital blackout affected over 7.4 million users, governments, and companies worldwide
TL;DR
- Microsoft announced the complete restoration of Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Copilot, and other Microsoft 365 services.
- A global outage, which began on Thursday, lasted over 24 hours, paralyzing corporate and government communications.
- The failure originated from a network infrastructure issue due to an alteration after a server capacity update.
- Microsoft ruled out cyberattacks, malicious activity, or AI interference as causes.
- The outage, monitored by Downdetector, saw over 7.4 million global notifications, with nearly 20,000 reports per minute at its peak.
- Impacts included disruptions to public agencies in Australia, Japan, and the US, as well as delays in financial trading, corporate earnings releases, and airline operations.
- Organizations using their own servers were unaffected.