{"id":17791,"date":"2026-11-14T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/microsoft-restores-services-after-global-outage\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:30:54","slug":"microsoft-restores-services-after-global-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/microsoft-restores-services-after-global-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft restores services after global outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49.313572542902\">\n<p>Tech giant Microsoft said on Saturday that 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>\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>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>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>Microsoft had attributed the disruption to \u201celevated load\u201d on its infrastructure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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>AFP<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#23574b4646474a574c516353564d404b4d440d404c4e\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e2968a8787868b968d90a292978c818a8c85cc818d8f\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft said on Saturday that it has \u201crestored service\u201d to customers, effectively drawing a close to a massive outage that caused chaos and disrupted public services and business&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}