Microsoft says it has restored services after global outage

Microsoft says in an update on X that its services have been fully restored. This after the tech giant completed efforts to address the underlying issue of the day-long global outage, one of the longest in its history.

Microsoft 365 services - including Outlook, Teams and Copilot - were interrupted from around noon on Thursday in the US, leaving workers unable to access emails and meeting tools.

Disruptions piled up from governments, courts, healthcare services to airlines in over 70 countries and territories. Operations at several banks in Hong Kong were affected as well.

Microsoft has said a technical issue arose during an earlier network upgrade, and noted there's no indication that the Microsoft 365 disruptions were caused by malicious activity, explicitly ruling out any cyberattack or AI agent involvement.

The Redmond, Washington-based company offers an apology and announces on Saturday they have restored service to the remaining impacted customers and region.