Microsoft says consumer products ‘fully recovered’, business services improving

Microsoft said on Saturday that services across Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications had fully recovered, ending an outage that disrupted online communications for businesses and governments for more than 24 hours. The company said it had addressed the underlying issue and restored service to remaining affected customers and regions.

The disruption began on Thursday and affected at least 74 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Microsoft said it was monitoring a backlog of enterprise email messages; US officials and the company said the outage was not linked to Friday’s nationwide US aviation ground stop.