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Microsoft outage hits Outlook, Teams and Copilot worldwide

Global Published 13 November 2026, 16:36 · archived 13 Nov 2026

Microsoft’s Outlook, Teams and Copilot were still down on Friday as one of the company’s worst outages stretched beyond 12 hours, disrupting communications for businesses and governments worldwide. Microsoft blamed server problems for the outage and said it was not aware of any malicious activity. It said in its latest update on Friday that it was seeing signs of stabilization after implementing fixes more broadly to attain a persistent recovery of services. The disruption hit government agencies in Australia, Japan, and the United States, and caused disruptions at trading firms, delays to com...

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