If your work email wouldn't load on Friday, it wasn't your laptop. Microsoft 365 was in trouble from before dawn on Friday, Adelaide time, and early on Saturday Microsoft said it was seeing "broad recovery and stability across our services." When we checked at 3:12pm Adelaide time on Saturday, Microsoft had marked the outage as restored. Its notes for personal accounts said services had "fully recovered" and the email backlog had been processed. Its incident notes for business email and the other services were marked restored too, though its public business status page still showed "Service degradation."

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