Microsoft 'deeply sorry' for global outage after almost 24 hours of disruption
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Summary
Microsoft apologized for an outage that disrupted Outlook, Teams and other services for nearly 24 hours across more than 70 countries. The company said a technical problem during a network capacity upgrade caused the outage, and services were broadly recovering by Friday afternoon.Key Facts
- Users began reporting trouble accessing Microsoft 365 products on Thursday.
- The outage affected more than 70 countries and products used by more than 430 million people worldwide.
- Microsoft said the problem came from a technical issue introduced during a network capacity upgrade.
- Microsoft said the outage was not related to cyberattacks or artificial intelligence agents.
- The outage disrupted business, government, health care, transport and personal services.
- Microsoft reported broader improvements in North America, sustained improvements across much of Europe and signs of recovery in Asia Pacific by Friday afternoon.
- The UK cyber minister said the impact on critical frontline services, including 999 calls, was limited.
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