Microsoft announced that the global outage affecting several of its products the second in two weeks including Outlook and Minecraft has been resolved now the company's preliminary investigation reveals that a Cyber attack coupled with inadequate defenses was behind the disruption the outage which lasted nearly 10 hours led to widespread issues for users across the world Microsoft has apologized for the inconvenience that has been caused this incident follows another significant Global outage less than 2 weeks ago which rendered around 8 and a half million computers using Microsoft systems inaccessible that outed linked to a flawed software update by cyber security firm crowd strike had a notable impact on sectors like health care and travel