Microsoft reports progress restoring European services

Microsoft reported encouraging progress in recovering its services in Europe on Friday, with email delivery and availability improving across affected Microsoft 365 infrastructure. The company earlier ruled out malicious activity like a hacker attack, attributing the disruptions to a possible overload from high request volumes in different regions. Outlook, Teams, Microsoft Store, and Copilot remain unstable. Outages have persisted since Thursday afternoon, with access difficulties continuing. Microsoft is monitoring the situation as recovery efforts advance across the affected platforms.