GoKawiilMicrosoft 365 outage stretches into second day, email delays extended to 48 hours
A disruption to Microsoft 365 services that began Thursday midday was still unresolved Friday morning, affecting email, cloud and AI tools. Microsoft extended its email timeout window to 48 hours to prevent message loss while recovery efforts continue, and said it has found no evidence of malicious activity, attributing the issue to failed server health checks.