By — Associated Press Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/microsoft-says-services-fully-restored-after-global-outage Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Microsoft says services fully restored after global outage World Nov 14, 2026 11:23 AM EST Microsoft said Saturday that services were fully restored after a massive outage that lasted for hours. "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 said in an update on X. Users reported that Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot, were interrupted. Downdetector, an online tracker, said it received outage reports from users in more than 70 countries and territories. READ MORE: What to know about Microsoft's outage and why it takes so long to restore email services The outage affected governments, courts, healthcare services, businesses, airlines and banks in many places. Governments including those of Japan, Singapore and Australia reported that the hourslong episode had impacted some of their operations. Over 430 million people use Microsoft 365 apps, Microsoft…
Microsoft says services fully restored after global outage
In short
The company verified that its systems have achieved complete recovery following a worldwide disruption. Users across the globe had experienced impacts to regular platform access during the downtime. System operations are now functioning normally after the global connectivity problems were resolved. Full functionality across all affected platforms has been successfully reestablished.
Key points
- Global user disruption has ended following the full restoration of company services.: Global user disruption has ended following the full restoration of company services.
- Complete system recovery was officially confirmed following the worldwide incident.: Complete system recovery was officially confirmed following the worldwide incident.
- Affected international users can now access the company platforms as normal.: Affected international users can now access the company platforms as normal.