Microsoft reported a broad recovery of Outlook and other services a day earlier, attributing the disruption to a technical issue unrelated to cyberattacks or AI agents. (EPA Images pic)WASHINGTON: Tech giant Microsoft said Saturday it has "restored service" to customers, effectively drawing a close to a massive outage that caused chaos and disrupted public services and business around the world.

"We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions," the US-based company said in an X post.

Microsoft had already reported a "broad recovery" for Outlook email and other services the day before, stating the major disruption was due to a technical issue and "not related to cyber or AI/agents."