Michael Levenson

November 14, 2026 — 9:21am

New York : Microsoft is reporting widespread improvements to its services after a global outage took them offline on Thursday (US time), disrupting communications and work at schools, government agencies and offices around the world.

The company, based in Redmond in the state of Washington, said on Friday (Washington time) that it was seeing an “encouraging recovery progress, with service availability and email delivery performance improving across a growing portion of affected infrastructure”.

Microsoft says it is seeing “encouraging recovery progress” after its worldwide outage.…