00:00And Microsoft says its email and other key consumer product services had fully recovered following a 24-hour outage which
00:08disrupted its communications worldwide.
00:11In a statement issued on X on Saturday, the tech giant informed it had completed its efforts to address the
00:18underlying issue of the incident and restore service to the remaining impacted customers and regions.
00:24According to the statement, the outage, which began around 4 p.m. local time on Thursday, affected users in 74
00:33countries and was caused by overloaded servers that became unexpectedly available.
00:39It also reiterated that there was no indication of a cyber attack or malicious activity.
00:45The outage was one of the longest in Microsoft's history and the second disruption to its services this year.
