A man looks at his phone as he passes by the Microsoft stand at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona in March 2025. | REUTERS
Reuters
Nov 14, 2026
Microsoft on Friday said that services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications, ending a global outage that crippled online communications across businesses and governments for over 24 hours.
Microsoft said earlier that server issues were behind the incident and that a broader rollout of software fixes was stabilizing the system. It said it was not aware of any malicious activity and ruled out AI as the cause.
Outlook and Teams are two of the most widely used workplace applications with hundreds of millions of users. The outage prevented people from performing essential functions such as sending emails, managing calendars and hosting virtual meetings.
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Source: The Japan Times
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