Microsoft faces a major Outlook outage: ‘no signs of a cyberattack’
Microsoft said "malicious" activity was not to blame for an Outlook outage that left users around the world without its crucial services on Friday, November 13, but reported making headway in fixing the massive disruption.
Key points
- Businesses, governments and likely millions of individuals have been without services like Outlook email for over half a day, triggering wide-ranging consequences.
A Microsoft outage on Thursday and Friday affected users of services like Outlook, Teams and 365.
Microsoft says its systems are experiencing “elevated loads” as the company races to end an outage impacting its business and enterprise customers.
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