Microsoft says Microsoft 365 services show initial signs of stabilization after outage

The signal here is less the outage itself than the shape of the recovery: Microsoft is deliberately throttling traffic back rather than restoring capacity at once, which suggests the fix is being managed cautiously rather than a clean restart. Extending the email timeout window to 48 hours is the practical tell — it acknowledges that delayed mail may still land well after services appear normal, so downstream business processes that depend on timely delivery should not assume resolved means delivered. Whether health stabilizes into full capacity is the open question.