Microsoft Outage: Analyst warns we aren't out of the woods yet

Following a worldwide outage of Microsoft Outlook bringing email communication to a standstill, one tech analyst warns that while services are coming back online, it will take some time to return to normal. Technology analyst and journalist Carmi Levy says when we see outages like this it usually takes a few hours to figure out what the root cause is and then to bring the systems back up and running, but he expects this incident could take much longer to sort out. "We are not out of the woods yet," says Levy. "It will take hours if not longer for the backlog of messaging that has built up during this outtage to be handled by the system." Nearly 24 hours after a Microsoft 365 outage knocked out services for users across the world, the tech giant says email queues were “approaching normal levels” but it is still working on a “full mitigation” of the problem. On Thursday, an outage was affecting a wide range of Microsoft 365 offerings that interact with its Exchange Online and email services. Services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot were reported by users to be down. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@globalnews.ca?lang=en #GlobalNews