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Microsoft Reports Restoration to Remaining Affected Users

In this lesson: Distinguish an attributed recovery claim from an unsupported measure of impact.

Name: __________________________ Date: __________________

Read the story

Microsoft announced on November 14 that the underlying issue had been addressed and services restored to the remaining affected customers and regions.

The outage had disrupted online communication across businesses and governments for more than 24 hours. The restoration statement was the company’s account of recovery; it was not a count of individual users affected.

Source: Reuters via Arab News, 2026-11-14. https://www.arabnews.com/world/microsoft-says-all-services-restored-after-global-outage-3011792

Read and practise

1. Who is the source of the restoration announcement?

   1. A survey of individual users
   2. A count by every affected government
   3. Microsoft itself

2. Which conclusion cannot be established from this statement?

   1. Communication was disrupted for over 24 hours
   2. An exact number of individual users affected
   3. The statement concerns recovery

Your turn

Write a cautious summary that reports the recovery and states one limit of the evidence.

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