A BBC article by technology reporter Laura Cress reports a Microsoft outage lasting more than 22 hours that disrupted Microsoft 365 services such as Outlook across more than 70 countries, knocking out email for the US House of Representatives and Australian intelligence agencies and disrupting courts in Singapore and airline support desks in India, with recovery taking nearly a full day after routine automated checks overloaded remaining servers. Microsoft apologised and said the failure was technical rather than a cyber-attack, while Flora Hamilton called it a "stark reminder" of firms' reliance on digital systems, Gergely Orosz faulted the slow recovery and suggested splitting services per region, and Walter Pasquarelli warned AI integration could make such failures spread further.