Microsoft scrambles to fix major outage affecting millions worldwide

The tech giant said it had made progress Friday as it rushed to fix the outage that has left services such as Teams and Outlook disrupted. It said the incident was not the result of any “malicious” activity.

Microsoft said it's inching closer to "full recovery" but the tech giant doesn't have an ETA for when all of its customers will be back up and running at pre-Thursday levels.

"As infrastructure stabilizes, we’re still draining queued messages and rebalancing traffic, so customers may see improved sign-in/access while delivery and processing continue to catch up," the company said in statement posted at about 3:05 p.m. EST.

"We do not have an ETA for full recovery yet. Service access can recover before mail flow fully normalizes."

BERLIN — It was the sound of e-silence.

No Microsoft Outlook email chimes, no Teams message pings, no new notifications and, very possibly, no work getting done.

Microsoft 365 teetered on the edge of becoming Microsoft 364 as the global outage stretched from Thursday into, ironically (or fittingly, depending on your personal outlook), Friday the 13th. The disruption has impacted an unknown number of netizens, but the total could be as high as 450 million —…

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