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Microsoft said it was "deeply sorry" after an outage affecting Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 products disrupted users in more than 70 countries for nearly a day. The company said services were largely recovering by Friday afternoon, with email queues returning to normal levels, and attributed the disruption to a technical fault introduced during a network capacity upgrade rather than a cyberattack or AI-related issue. More than 430 million people use the affected products, with government agencies, courts, hospitals and transport systems among those hit.