{"id":4450,"date":"2026-11-14T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2026-11-14T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:04:09","slug":"microsoft-announces-service-restored-global-outage-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4450","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces service &#8216;restored,&#8217; global outage over"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Tech giant Microsoft said Saturday it has \u201crestored service\u201d to customers, effectively drawing a close to a massive outage that caused chaos and disrupted public services and business around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,\u201d the US-based company said in an X post.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft had already reported a \u201cbroad recovery\u201d for Outlook email and other services the day before, stating the major disruption was due to a technical issue and \u201cnot related to cyber or AI\/agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outage swept the globe on Thursday, taking the company\u2019s products offline in at least 74 countries and territories across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, according to the monitoring site Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft had attributed the disruption to \u201celevated load\u201d on its infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>It said the stoppage affected its Outlook email service, as well as Microsoft\u2019s Teams communication platform and the company\u2019s Copilot AI assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft on Friday apologised for the global outage as it reported a \u201cbroad recovery\u201d for Outlook email and other services.<\/p>\n<p>The company ruled out any malicious \u201ccyber or AI\u201d activity as the cause of the outage, which affected several Microsoft products and disrupted health care services, delayed corporate earnings reports and left schools struggling to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident has caused our customers and partners,\u201d Microsoft said on X, adding that full services were still being restored after the outage started on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft said Saturday it has \u201crestored service\u201d to customers, effectively drawing a close to a massive outage that caused chaos and disrupted public services and business around the world. \u201cWe have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,\u201d the US-based company said in an X post. Microsoft had already reported a \u201cbroad recovery\u201d for Outlook email and other services the day before, stating the major disruption was due to a technical issue and \u201cnot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}