Microsoft claims 36-hour tech disruption of global work productivity has been resolved

Microsoft claimed early Saturday morning that the functionality of its Outlook email program has been restored for its 100 million users after a roughly 36-hour outage. “We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,” the Microsoft 365 Status account annoumced on X at 1:09 a.m. EST. The outage occurred at approximately 11:17 a.m. EST Thursday, affecting 74 countries and territories within an hour, according to Downdetector. Microsoft did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions. Further updates can be found at MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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