MICROSOFT: SERVICES FULLY RESTORED

WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 14 /SRNA/ - Microsoft has announced that its services are operating normally again and that the problems caused by a global outage two days ago, which disrupted operations, have been resolved.

The technology company said that the major issues had been fixed and that Outlook, Teams and Copilot were once again available to users, the BBC reported.

The outage affected more than 70 countries, while the company said that around 430 million people worldwide experienced technical problems caused by an upgrade to network capacity, rather than a cyberattack or the actions of an artificial intelligence agent.

Users began reporting problems accessing Microsoft 365 tools on Thursday, November 12, and the services began returning to normal 24 hours after the issues first emerged.

In the United Kingdom, some parts of the National Health Service /NHS/, as well as certain schools and police forces, were affected.

In Canada, the national railway network said that passengers might not receive email notifications about their journeys, while hospitals across the country also experienced email problems.

In the United States, House of Representatives staffers told Politico that they were unable to work because all their data was stored in Microsoft's Outlook.

The Singaporean government acknowledged that some of its systems had been affected, while the outage disrupted the work of many people in India yesterday.

In Turkey, advisers and officials attending the climate summit in Antalya were unable to carry out their planned activities because they could not access Outlook.

The problems also affected small businesses and numerous individuals.