Microsoft reports progress in restoring services after outage

We have developing news this morning. Microsoft is scrambling. to get users online following a massive outage. Feels like this affected everyone. Yeah, well, definitely around here, right? Services like Outlook, Teams, even Copilot have been down or glitching since Thursday afternoon. The widespread outage hit airlines, banks, and even the U.S. House of Representatives, forcing some overseas traders to confirm deals by fax. Fax. Microsoft says server issues, not a hack, caused the crash. Marking its second major 365 disruption this year. Early this morning, engineers reported early stabilization and extended email timeouts to 48 hours so delayed messages won't bounce. You can expect some lingering hiccups as systems do recover. Nita Vogel has more. Businesses and employees across the country working around a major technical headache after a widespread Microsoft outage impacting services like Outlook and Teams began Thursday afternoon and continued into Friday morning. Nothing, just stuck on that instant reload. I'm not at work right now. If I was, it definitely would impact what we do. Microsoft acknowledging reports of user issues and posting service updates throughout the night on its Microsoft 365 Status X account. As of early Friday, a post said in part, quote, We are continuing to work on recovering our front-end servers while implementing further traffic optimization actions to improve service stability and increase capacity. Meantime, we're learning about the far-reaching impact stretching beyond the states, with officials in Australia and parts of Asia also reporting complications. The government's information system The government's IT infrastructure, GSS, has also been affected. The Australian Home Affairs Minister sharing his conversation with Microsoft Australia. The perspective of Microsoft at this stage, they do not believe they are dealing with a cyber event. According to Dynamics Connect, Microsoft 365 has roughly 321 million active users globally. I'm Anita Vogel, Fox News.