France, Nov. 13 -- Millions of people around the world have been cut off from their Outlook email since Thursday evening by a global Microsoft outage that has disrupted businesses, governments, public services and the media for more than half a day.

Other services, including Teams and Copilot, have also been hit as the tech giant struggles to fix the server problems it has blamed for the disruption. Microsoft has ruled out any "malicious" activity.

On Friday, the company said it had made "additional progress" towards restoring services, with traffic gradually returning across parts of its affected infrastructure.

"We're seeing improvements in key scenarios, including mailbox access and delayed email processing, though some intermittent...