Microsoft says all services working again

US tech giant Microsoft says it has fixed problems that led to a global outage of its services. The glitch severely disrupted online communications in businesses and governments for more than 24 hours.

The US technology conglomerate Microsoft said on Saturday that a more than 24-hour global outage affecting its Microsoft 365 applications used by businesses and governments across the world has now ended. "We ​have completed our efforts to address ​the underlying issue of the ⁠incident ​and ​restored service to ​the remaining impacted ‌customers and regions," ​the ⁠company posted on X.

Microsoft applications such as Teams, Outlook and Copilot were all hit by the outage, leading to communications problems in scores of countries. The company has said it was "not aware" of any outside interference that could have been behind the outage, blaming the problem on server issues.