{"id":17747,"date":"2026-11-14T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/microsoft-announces-service-restored-global-outage-over\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T16:17:58","slug":"microsoft-announces-service-restored-global-outage-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/microsoft-announces-service-restored-global-outage-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces service \u2018restored,\u2019 global outage over"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Microsoft-announces-service-\u2018restored-global-outage-over.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft announces service \u2018restored,\u2019 global outage over\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Microsoft-announces-service-\u2018restored-global-outage-over.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AFP__20261113__D7CN4Y6__v1__MidRes__IndiaMicrosoftIllustrationLogo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AFP__20261113__D7CN4Y6__v1__MidRes__IndiaMicrosoftIllustrationLogo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AFP__20261113__D7CN4Y6__v1__MidRes__IndiaMicrosoftIllustrationLogo-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AFP__20261113__D7CN4Y6__v1__MidRes__IndiaMicrosoftIllustrationLogo.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tech giant Microsoft said Saturday it has \u201crestored service\u201d to customers, effectively drawing a close to a massive outage that caused chaos and disrupted public services and business around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,\u201d the US-based company said in an X post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft had already reported a \u201cbroad recovery\u201d for Outlook email and other services the day before, stating the major disruption was due to a technical issue and \u201cnot related to cyber or AI\/agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outage swept the globe on Thursday, taking the company\u2019s products offline in at least 74 countries and territories across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, according to the monitoring site Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft had attributed the disruption to \u201celevated load\u201d on its infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said the stoppage affected its Outlook email service, as well as Microsoft\u2019s Teams communication platform and the company\u2019s Copilot AI assistant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/microsoft-announces-service-restored-global-outage-over\/\">Microsoft announces service \u2018restored,\u2019 global outage over<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft said Saturday it has \u201crestored service\u201d to customers, effectively drawing a close to a massive outage that caused chaos and disrupted public services and business around the&hellip; 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