a Microsoft office sign
The outage of Microsoft’s services, which began on Friday morning, lasted roughly 18 hours before services started to recover. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
The outage of Microsoft’s services, which began on Friday morning, lasted roughly 18 hours before services started to recover. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for global disruption that could have billion-dollar impact on Australia

Experts say outage exposes ‘Australia’s reliance on foreign technology’ as software giant says services being restored