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.
Microsoft announced on Saturday that a prolonged global outage affecting its Microsoft 365 applications has come to an end. The company posted on X that it had completed efforts to address the underlying issue and restored service to impacted customers and regions. Applications like Teams, Outlook, and Copilot were all impacted, leading to communication difficulties in numerous countries.
Microsoft attributed the problem to server issues and denied any outside interference. This was one of the longest outages in Microsoft's history and the second this year. The outage, which began around 1725 UTC on Thursday, affected government agencies and businesses worldwide, making activities such as sending emails and holding online meetings impossible.
Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization stated that while the outage did not significantly impact federal government functions, it did greatly affect businesses. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) was also severely impacted, with personnel forced to use paper records instead of online-stored data.
Over 7.4 million reports of problems were logged worldwide by Downdetector, a monitoring service. The incident underscores the significant and risky reliance of governments and businesses on a limited number of major technology companies.
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