Microsoft 365 is back up! Tech giant says outage that crippled NHS, police, businesses, courts and schools is over (now we've just got to plough through all those unread e-mails)

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Office workers joked online they now have hundreds of emails to go through after they were unable to log in to their accounts for hours on Friday.

Published: 12:14 GMT, 14 November 2026 | Updated: 12:17 GMT, 14 November 2026

Microsoft 365 has been fully restored following a major global outage that crippled police forces, the NHS, businesses, courts and schools.

The technology giant said this morning it had restored services to the remaining customers affected by one of the worst IT failures in years.

One person posted a meme with the caption: 'Me replying to the 1039 emails in the hour of work after enjoying the Microsoft outage a little too much.

'They could have waited just a little longer to fix it... more coffee please!!'

Another shared an AI video of a cat furiously typing with the caption: 'When Microsoft fixed the outage, and now I'm sick of replying to all the work emails.'

This morning, the US-based firm posted on its Microsoft 365 status page: 'We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions.

'Further updates can be found at MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center.'

The UK Government was forced to put in place contingency measures due to the outage, while Microsoft scrambled to restore services after they began to go down from 6pm GMT on Thursday.

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