Microsoft's global outage affecting its email, messaging and other services continued into a second day, according to a report from The New York Times. The Times reported that the company described "encouraging" progress on efforts to overcome the disruptions. The report was written by Michael Levenson.
According to BBC News, Microsoft has said the outage was not caused by a cyber-security incident. The BBC reported, however, that efforts to fix the issues have so far been largely unsuccessful.
A live report from The Guardian said Microsoft says some servers are returning to service and that a recovery process is under way. The Guardian's headline cited "positive results for server stability." Its summary said the outage is largely affecting email systems, including Outlook and Teams, and that a number of essential services remain unaffected. The Guardian's report was credited to Graeme Wearden, with earlier updates by Achol Arok, Jordyn Beazley and Josh Butler.
The sources differ on the state of the recovery. The BBC described the fixes as largely unsuccessful so far. The Guardian pointed to positive results for server stability, and The New York Times described progress as encouraging. The available summaries do not reconcile these assessments, and they do not give a timeline for full restoration.
The Guardian's summary also begins to describe a statement from the Australian Medical Association, but the excerpt ends before the substance of that statement. The summaries provided do not say what the association reported.
Sources: BBC News: What we know about the global Microsoft outage; The Guardian: Microsoft outage live: ‘positive results for server stability’ reported, amid global disruption; The New York Times: Microsoft’s Global Outage and Fixes: What We Know.