Microsoft said Saturday that all its services affected by this week’s global outage have been restored.
The company said it had “completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,” following a major outage of its email, meeting and other office tools that began Thursday afternoon.
Earlier the company had apologized, saying it was “deeply sorry for the disruption.” It said the outage was caused by a technical issue that emerged following an upgrade to its network, and was not related to AI or a cyberattack.
The global disruption affected communications at government services, hospitals, schools, police departments, courts and businesses. Some traders in Japan had to resort to using fax.
British lawmaker Chi Onwurah who chairs the U.K. government’s science, innovation and technology committee said the outage highlights the dangers dependency on U.S.-based technology providers “can pose to our security, economy and public services.”
Meanwhile, some workers used the opportunity of an unexpected switch-off to rest, and some organizations used it to promote their services, including the reliability of old-school letter writing.
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