Microsoft services fully restored after two-day global outage

Microsoft announced Saturday that its services are fully restored after a two-day global outage affecting millions of users, confirming the disruption was a technical issue and not a cyberattack. The company stated on X that it completed efforts to resolve the problem and restored service for all remaining affected users and regions. Microsoft had previously reported a "broad recovery" and apologized, clarifying the cause was technical, not related to AI. The outage began Thursday, disabling Microsoft products across at least 74 countries and territories in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, according to tracking site Downdetector.