Microsoft says all services working again
Microsoft announced Saturday that a 24-hour-plus global outage affecting its 365 applications has ended, restoring services to businesses and governments worldwide.
The US technology conglomerate Microsoft confirmed Saturday that a more than 24-hour global outage impacting its Microsoft 365 applications has been resolved. The disruption affected businesses and governments across the world, with applications including Teams, Outlook and Copilot all experiencing problems.
The company stated it had completed efforts to address the underlying issue and restored service to remaining affected customers and regions. Microsoft blamed server issues rather than outside interference for the disruption, which marked one of the longest outages in the company's history and the second such incident this year.
Global Impact
According to web testing company Ookla, the outage began around 1725 UTC on Thursday, causing communications problems in scores of countries. It made it impossible for users to send emails and hold online meetings.
Germany reported significant impacts on businesses despite federal government functions remaining largely unaffected. Britain's NHS was severely affected, with personnel forced to use paper records instead of digital ones. Downdetector logged more than 7.4 million problem reports worldwide during the incident.
We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions.
Broader Implications
The disruption underscores the widespread and perilous reliance of governments and businesses on a very small number of Big Tech companies. Microsoft's problems are believed to be unconnected with a separate major communications outage affecting US aviation.
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