Pakistan, Nov. 14 -- Microsoft said on Friday that it was seeing "improvements" for Outlook email and other services amid an outage that was disrupting public services and businesses around the world.

In an update, it noted "broader improvements in North America, sustained improvements across much of Europe, and encouraging recovery signals in Asia-Pacific".

A more than 12-hour outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams crippled communications for businesses and governments globally, forcing some organisations to revert to fax machines and halting at least one bond repurchase in Europe.

Microsoft said server issues were behind the incident that also affected its Copilot AI assistant and that a broader roll-out of software fixes was starting...