Microsoft says consumer products 'fully recovered', business services improving

Microsoft said its consumer products services ​had ‌fully recovered as of 4.10pm (GMT) on Friday, while it was seeing some sustained recovery for its Microsoft 365 ​enterprise services after a ‌global outage ‌that ​crippled online communications across businesses and ​governments ​for ​over 24 hours. The technology ‌giant said it was "monitoring the backlog of email messages accrued ‌during this event" before considering ​the issue with the enterprise services resolved. "Due to the severity ​of impact this incident ​caused, we're monitoring ​for an extended period to ensure ​no additional mitigative actions are required," Microsoft said in an update on its service ⁠status page. 'One of the biggest outages ever': Disruption to Microsoft services enters second day To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: © France 24 03:39 The US Homeland Security chief in Washington also confirmed that there was no link between the Microsoft issue and Friday's US air stoppage. Microsoft earlier said it had no indication that the Federal Aviation Administration nationwide ground stop is related to the service disruption that took Outlook and other services offline Thursday, a spokesperson for the company said. (FRANCE 24 with Reuters and AFP).