Microsoft says services fully restored after global outage

Tech company says services now restored to all customers and regions hit by one of worst IT failures in years

Microsoft has said its service is fully restored after a massive outage that caused widespread disruption to governments, businesses and public services around the world.

The tech company said on Saturday morning it had restored service to the remaining customers affected by one of the worst IT failures in years. On its Microsoft 365 status page, the US-based firm said: “We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions.