Microsoft outage continues as planned fixes are not working as expected, company says
- On Thursday, November 12, 2026, a global Microsoft 365 outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, and Exchange Online across 74 countries, generating more than 130,000 peak reports on outage tracker Downdetector.
- Engineers determined that servers became unexpectedly unavailable, straining remaining infrastructure with elevated load; Microsoft confirmed the incident was not caused by malicious or cyber activity.
- Government agencies in Singapore and Australia triggered contingency agreements, while the Philippines' Supreme Court and UK police forces reported significant operational delays affecting email and communications.
- By Friday, November 13, 2026, Microsoft reported early stabilization and capacity improvements as recovery actions continued in phases, though service health remained variable across regions.
- The disruption highlights systemic vulnerability when critical workflows depend on interconnected cloud infrastructure from few providers, prompting experts to call for better redundancy and fault isolation mechanisms.
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US technology giant Microsoft has announced that it has resolved all issues and is fully providing all services again after a global outage. Microsoft has previously stressed that the outage was not caused by a cyberattack or an artificial intelligence agent, but by a technical error in its network infrastructure.
They claim that the disruptions were caused by a technical error, not a cyberattack or a possible malfunction of artificial intelligence.
Microsoft says consumer products services recovered on Friday
Microsoft said on Friday its consumer products services had fully recovered, while it was seeing some sustained recovery for its Microsoft 365 enterprise services.The company had earlier reported that the global outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams was easing after more than 24 hours of disruption crippled online communications across businesses and governments, though the company said it still had no timeline for full recovery of s…
Microsoft apologises for global outage, says network upgrade triggered disruption
Explaining the cause, Microsoft said a problem introduced during an earlier network capacity upgrade surfaced after a more recent network change. The company said it had addressed the underlying issue and was continuing its recovery efforts.
The American tech company Microsoft states that services that have been affected by outages have now been restored.
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