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Microsoft outage disrupts families, businesses as firms lean on backup systems

Microsoft Outlook experienced a global outage, affecting users and other services like Teams. The issue was due to ‘elevated load’ on Microsoft’s infrastructure.

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Microsoft says all services working again

US tech giant Microsoft says it has fixed problems that led to a global outage of its services. The glitch severely disrupted online communications in businesses and governments for more than 24 hours.

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Microsoft Says All Services Restored After Global Outage

Microsoft said on Saturday that services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook and its other products, ending a global outage that crippled online communications for businesses and governments for over 24 hours. "We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions," the company posted on X. Microsoft had said server issues were behind the incident that also affected its Copilot AI assistant, and that it was not aware of any malicious activity, ruling out AI as the cause.

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