Microsoft announced steady recovery progress across its cloud ecosystem after a widespread global outage disrupted Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and AI assistant Copilot for over 24 hours. The service disruption left thousands of corporations, government agencies, and financial institutions scrambling to maintain communications. In an official statement, Microsoft ruled out a cyberattack or AI-related failure, attributing the incident to a technical fault stemming from an earlier network-capacity upgrade under elevated traffic load. The incident has renewed urgent discussions among enterprise chief information officers regarding over-reliance on single-vendor cloud infrastructure.
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