00:05Now after a server outage across more than 74 countries, Microsoft has issued its statement
00:13that they are now seeing encouraging recovery progress with service availability as well
00:17as email delivery performance improving across a growing portion of the affected infrastructure.
00:23Microsoft has also said that they know that the customers rely on the services to get
00:28important work done every day and they regret the impact that the outage had on those that depend
00:33on the platform. Microsoft has also said that they will continue to share more information as they
00:38have it but for now it has been confirmed that there is no indication that this is the result
00:42of a malicious or a cyber activity. Further, the teams at Microsoft are reviewing what exactly
00:48happened. If it was not a hack or a cyber attack, what was it and how they can prevent similar
00:54issues
00:55going forward. Remember 4.3 crore people were affected across 74 countries by an outage that
01:02lasted for over 17 hours across the Asia Pacific and other regions and 4.3 crore people were
01:10affected by the outage that ranged from iOutlook to in fact Teams to CoPilot and many other of
01:17Microsoft's platforms leaving crores of people affected, halting work across global offices and
01:24affecting personal work as well. Microsoft is now seeing that recovery progress is encouraging and
01:31that email delivery performance has also been improved but for now there is no indication that
01:37this was a hacking activity or in fact a cyber attack investigation by the Microsoft Teams will now
01:43confirm how it led to this outage.
