Microsoft restores service to Outlook and Teams after global outage

Microsoft has announced that services for Outlook, Teams, and other products have been fully restored following a global outage that lasted over 24 hours. The company stated that the underlying issue causing the incident has been addressed and service has been restored to impacted customers and regions. Microsoft had identified server issues as the root cause, ruling out any malicious activity, including AI as the cause.

The outage affected critical functions such as email, calendar management, and virtual meetings for hundreds of millions of users. Notable impacts included government agencies in countries from Australia to the United States, trading firms, and airlines. Organizations using Microsoft products were prompted to warn customers of communication delays.