Microsoft confirmed on Friday that its services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications, ending a global outage that crippled online communications across businesses and governments for over 24 hours. The company's announcement points to a resolution in sight on Saturday.

The outage had disrupted online communications on a worldwide scale, affecting organisations that rely on Microsoft's collaboration and productivity tools for day-to-day operations.S1S2

Separately, the US homeland security chief confirmed there was 'no Microsoft link' to the US air stoppage, ruling out any connection between the outage and the disruption to US air travel.S1S2