{
  "id": 20018817,
  "title": "Microsoft restores services after global outage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/microsoft-restores-services-after-global-outage-20018817",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-14T18:00:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Punch",
    "slug": "punch",
    "url": "https://punchng.com/microsoft-restores-services-after-global-outage/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Microsoft has announced that it has restored its services following a global outage that disrupted Outlook email, Microsoft Teams, and the Copilot AI assistant across 74 countries and territories on Thursday. The company stated that the issue was due to an elevated load on its infrastructure and that it had completed its efforts to address the underlying problem, bringing its services back online.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}