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 Copilot across 74 countries, with Downdetector recording nearly 130,000 reports of Outlook issues at peak.
- Microsoft attributed the disruption to an "elevated load" caused by servers becoming "unexpectedly unavailable," creating a cascading failure across its infrastructure while stating there is "no indication this is the result of malicious or cyber activity."
- Government agencies and businesses worldwide reported significant operational delays. Japan's National Disaster Management Agency urged people to "please contact us by calling our main number," while the UK government implemented "robust contingency plans" to maintain essential services.
- By Friday, November 13, 2026, Microsoft reported "service degradation" affecting business and enterprise users as engineers struggled to restore stability. The company acknowledged that several fixes were "not taking as expected," leaving partial recovery for some customers globally.
- This incident underscores vulnerabilities within centralized cloud architectures, where a single component's failure compromises the entire service chain. Microsoft officials promised a comprehensive post-incident report detailing the root cause and mitigation strategies once the disruption is fully resolved.
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A major disruption at Microsoft 365 has slowed down companies and authorities around the world.A look at causes, risks, alternatives, and evasive options.When Microsoft strikes servers, everything suddenly stops in many offices: no emails in Outlook, no video conferencing in teams, no access to AI assistant Copilot.The latest major global disruption at Microsoft 365 raises once again fundamental questions about the stability of the large US clou…
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The Microsoft outage means no incessant email chimes or message pings, but still we stayed online
It was the sound of e-silence. No Microsoft Outlook email chimes, no Teams message pings, no new notifications and, very possibly, no work getting done. Microsoft 365 teetered on the edge of becoming Microsoft 364 as the global outage stretched…
Many companies around the world work with the Microsoft 365 suite, the company's cloud-based subscription service, which is affected.
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